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Laist sacrament at Edinburgh ye pickit up twal books, ae clothes brush, an' a crochet cover for a chair, an' left a'thing that belonged tae ye." "It was an inadvertence; but I obtained a drawer for my own use this time, and I was careful to pack its contents into the bag, leaving nothing." But the Rabbi did not seem over-confident.
"And what?" demanded the eager auditory. "She pickit up the elder's wife, sobbin' and tearin' her hair in strong hysterics." At the end of a relieved pause Sir Alan slowly concluded: "It was said that the elder removed frae Aiblinnoch wi' his wife, but no' till he had effected a change of meenesters."
He had not sat more than a minute, when he saw her eyes fixed upon the horse. "What's that ye hae there, Cosmo?" she said. "This?" returned Cosmo. "It's a cane I pickit up upo' my traivels. What think ye o' 't?" He held it out to her, but she did not move her hand towards it. "Whaur got ye't?" she asked, her eyes growing larger as she looked.
"Well, never mind that," interrupted Sharpman; "when did you next see the boy?" "Never till I pickit 'im up o' the road." "And when was that?" "It'll be three year come the middle o' June. I canna tell ye the day." "On what road was it?" "I'll tell ye how it cam' aboot. It was the mornin' after the circus.
"Hoots man!" answered Thomas; "dinna ye see 'at gin the man was cawpable o' makin' sic a mistak's that, i' the mids o' his perfec confidence in his ain knowledge an' jeedgment, he cud hardly hae been intendit by Providence for an interpreter o' dark sayings of old?" Andrew burst into a laugh. "Wha cud hae thocht, Thomas, 'at ye cud hae pickit sic gumption oot o' stanes!"
I did it masel' a wee while. That's what I telt Tam, an' I pinted oot the difference atween you an' the elders. I said as hoo ye wad hae pickit oot the auld buddy first But to think ma ain een saw ye comin' ben the taivern ayont twal o'clock at nicht." With such varied discourse did Geordie beguile our homeward way, which at last brought us to his dwelling-place.
'Did you find this in it? he asked, seating himself on her little throne of turf. 'Na; I put that there mysel, answered Kirsty. 'There was naething intil the place, jist naething ava! There was naething ye cud hae pickit aff o' the flure. Gien it hadna been oot o' the gait o' the win', ye wud hae thoucht it had sweepit it clean.
Laist sacrament at Edinburgh ye pickit up twal books, ae clothes-brush, an' a crochet cover for a chair, an' left a'thing that belonged tae ye." "It was an inadvertence; but I obtained a drawer for my own use this time, and I was careful to pack its contents into the bag, leaving nothing." But the Rabbi did not seem over-confident.
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