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When she discovered who her neighbour was, she started away, and stared; but she had had enough of quarrelling for the evening, and besides had not had time to bar her door against the angel Pity, who suddenly stepped across the threshhold of her heart with the sight of Mrs Mair's pale thin cheeks and tear reddened eyes.
"No good to her, nowther on 'em no good, I reckon; mair's the pity," murmured Mrs. Garth, calling her apron once more into active service. "How so?" Rotha could not resist the temptation to probe these mysterious deliverances. "Leastways, not 'xcept the good dear man as is gone, Angus hissel', made a will for her; and, as I say to my Joey, there's no knowin' as ever he did; and nowther is there."
Dave Duffy called. 7th. Fine. Roped the red filly. 8th. Showery. Sold the gray mair's fole. 9th. Fine. Wint to the Red hill after a horse. 10th. Fine, Found tree sheap ded in sqre padick. I closed the book and put it up with a sigh. The little record was a perfect picture of the dull narrow life of its writer.
Their profit was not very large, but they had become stereotypers as well as printers, and had added a valuable department to their business. They next undertook twenty-five hundred copies of Mair's "Introduction to Latin," which they delivered in December, 1817. In April, 1818, they put forth their first venture on their own account.
"Yes, my house!" "Niggers don't own houses in dis here town no mo'; white uns air rulin' now," was the saucy response. "We uns air in these houses, an' we air goin' ter stay in um. An' mo'n thet; them's ther Mair's orders." "You poor white trash; I worked hard for this house, and hold the deed for it, so you get out!" So saying, she caught hold of the latch.
However, as I say, these times of enjoyment were passed and gone with me the mair's the pity that pleasure should fly sae fast away and as I couldna make sport I thought I should not mar any; so out I sauntered into the fresh cold air, and sat down behind that old oak, and looked abroad on the wide sea.
His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times the mair's the pity he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
The expedition took months, and involved hard if picturesque travelling, all of which is graphically described in Mr. Mair's narrative Through the Mackenzie Basin. The treaty was made beginning first at Lesser Slave Lake, and continuing at other points. Mr.
Malcolm would have made one in the little fleet, for he belonged to his friend Joseph Mair's crew, had it not been found impossible to get the new boat ready before the following evening; whence, for this one more, he was still his own master, with one more chance of a pleasure for which he had been on the watch ever since Lady Florimel had spoken of having a row in his boat.
Shall I tell them where I am going?" "Yes, my lady. It will be better. They will look amazed, for all their breeding." "Whose boat is it, that I may be able to tell them if they should ask me?" "Joseph Mair's. He and his wife will come and fetch you. Annie Mair will go with us if I may say us: will you allow me to go in your boat, my lady?" "I couldn't go without you, Malcolm."
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