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Bowie was the wright, and attended burials in his official capacity. He had the gift of words to an uncommon degree, and I do not forget his crushing blow at the reputation of the poet Burns, as delivered under the auspices of the Thrums Literary Society. "I am of opeenion," said Bowie, "that the works of Burns is of an immoral tendency. I have not read them myself, but such is my opeenion."
I have not read them myself, but such is my opeenion, he was comparing the merely rational conclusion which might have resulted from a reading of Burns's works with the conviction about them which he found ready-made in his mind, and which was the more sacred to him and more intimately his own, because he did not know how it was produced. Auld Licht Idylls, p. 220.
"Yet if, as you say, the Athabasca is so dangerous " began Alf, when he was again interrupted with kindly roughness. "If? Laddie, laddie, are you forgetting that there's a Hand that could guide the frailest birch-bark safely through Niagara itsel'? And I doot not that I'm right when I say that it's my opeenion that that same Hand has no' been very far from your faithers in their plight.
"If I could, I'd take you home with me, Aunt Ellen; if I were only sure of the outcome of this trouble, I would anyway but to take you there to a home of sorrow " "There, Hester, dear. Don't ye greet. It's my opeenion ye're goin' to find yer son an' tak him in yer arms ance mair. Ye were never the right wife for Peter. I can see that. Ye're too saft an' gentle."
Presently Sim turned to me. 'Ye're unco ready with the stick, said he. 'Too ready, I'm afraid, said I. 'I am afraid Mr. 'Weel, I wouldnae wonder, replied Sim. 'And what is likely to happen? I inquired. 'Aweel, said Sim, snuffing profoundly, 'if I were to offer an opeenion, it would not be conscientious. For the plain fac' is, Mr. St. Ivy, that I div not ken.
His intentions were thwarted by the want of caution in his companion. "Iss it to the land ye are going?" asked Fergus. "Yes it's our only chance," whispered Dan. "It iss my opeenion " murmured the Highlander. "Hush!" ejaculated Dan. But the caution came too late. A listening Red-skin overheard the sounds, and, with a sudden dash was alongside of them.
"Weel, I dinna believe a word o' this story aboot Bob," said Robert quietly, who had "hunkered" down beside the two men who sat so earnestly discussing matters while the others went on with their games and dancing. "Do ye no', Rob?" said Tam. "No, I do not," was the firm reply, "for nae matter what happens in a fight, it's ay the opeenion o' some folk that the men ha'e been sell't."
"Man!" he exclaimed, turning a face of righteous wrath upon the well-meaning young clergyman, "man! It's ma' opeenion, that wi' an instrument o' wund in the pulpit, we're no in great need o' anither in the congregation!" and sweeping a clattering shower of stones down the hill, he tramped away ahead, leaving consternation and dismay in his wake.
"There iss no doubt," remarked MacSweenie, as he surveyed the banks of the river, "that the place is no' that bad, but in my opeenion the summer will be short, whatever, an' the winter it will be long." "Ye may be sure that you are not far wrong if it's like the rest o' this country," replied Mowat.
'It's no for me to give ma opeenion about ma betters, replied Archie, ungraciously, as he went out to see after the horse and trap; 'but I dinna care aboot sitting in the seat of the scornfu', or walking in the ways of the unrighteous, and with this parting shot at Vandeloup he went away.
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