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"Was Jacob a good man?" he asked, as soon as the reading, each of the scholars in turn taking a verse, was over. An apparently universal expression of assent followed; halting its wake, however, came the voice of a boy near the bottom of the class: "Wasna he some dooble, sir?" "You are right, Sheltie," said the master; "he was double.
As soon as ever Alexander Graham, the polished thinker and sweet mannered gentleman, opened his mouth concerning the things he loved best, that moment the most poetic forms came pouring out in the most rugged speech. "I reckon, sir," said Sheltie, "Jacob hadna fouchten oot his battle." "That's jist it, my boy.
"'The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection," replied Sheltie, now with perfect accuracy; whereupon the master, fearing the outbreak of a torrent of counter questions, made haste to dismiss him. "That'll do, Sheltie," he said.
I think he may be whiles ane an' whiles the ither, an' whiles maybe it wad be ill to say whilk. Oor collie's whiles in twa min's whether he'll du what he's telled or no." "That's the battle of Armageddon, Sheltie, my man. It's aye ragin', ohn gun roared or bayonet clashed. Ye maun up an' do yer best in't, my man.
Attacks on authours useful to them. Return to Armidale. October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales. German courts. Goldsmith's love of talk. Emigration. Curious story of the people of St. Kilda. October 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death. Sail for Mull. A storm. Driven into Col. October 4. Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple. His curious appearance on a sheltie.
"Which of the questions did you break down in today?" "Please, sir, I cudna rest i' my grave till the resurrection," answered Sheltie, with but a dim sense of the humour involved in the reply. "'What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?" said Mr Graham, putting the question with a smile.
John, in visage, in shape, in hue, as unlike the dark, acerb, and caustic little professor, as the fruit of the Hesperides might be unlike the sloe in the wild thicket; as the high-couraged but tractable Arabian is unlike the rude and stubborn "sheltie." He was looking for me, but had not yet explored the corner where the schoolmaster had just put me.
"Run home to your dinner." Sheltie shot from the room like a shell from a mortar. He had barely vanished when Mr Stewart rose and came slowly from his corner, his legs appearing to tremble under the weight of his hump, which moved fitfully up and down in his futile attempts to utter the word resurrection.
I differed from him, 'O, sir, said he, 'a most dolorous country! We had a very hard journey to-day. I had no bridle for my sheltie, but only a halter; and Joseph rode without a saddle. At one place, a loch having swelled over the road, we were obliged to plunge through pretty deep water.
He was off in a moment, but Rose had the start, and though old Sheltie did his best, she reached the goal just ahead, and stood there laughing and panting, all rosy with fresh October air, a pretty picture for several gentlemen who were driving by.
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