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It happened to suit his grace's plans, and he came speedily to his assistance with the offer of his native parish whence the soutar's argumentative antagonist had just been removed to a place, probably not a very distinguished one, in the kingdom of heaven; and it seemed to all but a natural piety when James Blatherwick exchanged his parish for that where he was born, and where his father and mother continued to occupy the old farm.
"Here's soutar's Maggie wanting ye, mem!" said the maid and Mistress Blatherwick who was close at hand, came; to which Maggie humbly but confidently making her request had it as kindly granted, and followed her to the barn to fill her pock with the light plumy covering of the husk of the oats, the mistress of Stonecross helping her the while and talking to her as she did so for the soutar and his daughter were favourites with her and her husband, and they had not seen either of them for some while.
Lammie, when next he went to Aberdeen, to take the soutar's fiddle, and get what he could for it, to help his widow. 'Poor Sanny! said Robert, 'it never cam' intil 's heid to sell her, nae mair nor gin she had been the auld wife 'at he ca'd her. Mr. Lammie undertook the commission; and the next time he saw Robert, handed him ten pounds as the result of the negotiation.
One morning, early in summer, when first the hillsides had begun to look attractive, a small agricultural cart, such as is now but seldom seen, with little paint except on its two red wheels, and drawn by a thin, long-haired little horse, stopped at the door of the soutar's house, clay-floored and straw-thatched, in a back-lane of the village.
So the next day Shargar contrived to slip out of school just as the writing lesson began, for he had great skill in conveying himself unseen, and, with his book-bag, slunk barefooted into the soutar's entry. The shop door was a little way open, and the red eyes of Shargar had only the corner next it to go peering about in. But there he saw the shoes.
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