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Tammas did not give Chirsty a wake inside the house; but one Friday morning it was market-day, and the square was consequently full it went through the town that the tables were spread before his door. Young and old collected, wandering round the house, and Tammas stood at the tables in his blacks inviting every one to eat and drink.
At the same moment Tammas hallooed: "Theer he be! yon's yaller un coomin' oot o' drain! La, Sam'l!" And there, indeed, on the slope below them, a little angry, smutty-faced figure was crawling out of a rabbit-burrow.
The minister, however, harangued them on their sinfulness in daring to question the like of him, and they had to retire vanquished though dissatisfied. Then came the disclosures of Tammas Haggart, who was never properly secured by the Auld Lichts until Mr. Dishart took him in hand. It was Tammas who wrote anonymous letters to Mr.
"Was I sayin' it wasna?" demanded Tammas. "It was through me readin' the account oot o' the Cheap Magazine 'at the discussion arose." "But what said the Cheapy was the origin o' cock-fechtin'?" "T'nowhead 'll tell ye," answered Tammas; "he says I dinna ken." "I never said naething o' the kind," returned T'nowhead, indignantly; "I mind o' ye readin't oot fine."
But a few weeks afterward Lang Tammas, the chief elder, was observed talking with her for an hour in Gowrie's close; and the very next Sabbath Chirsty pushed her husband in triumph into her father's pew. The minister, though completely taken by surprise, at once referred to the stranger, in a prayer of great length, as a brand that might yet be plucked from the burning.
"So you're going to use a Jimmy instead, eh?" countered Blake. "Right-o, Tammas," said Lord James. "We're going to open up the incident out of hand." "Lord!" groaned Blake. He rose, flushing with embarrassment, and swung across, to stare at a blueprint in the far corner of the room. Lord James flicked the ash from his cigar with his little finger, and smiled at Griffith.
Three of the five cows were sold to buy the medicines and the patent foods he did not seem to notice. Duncan, the farm man who never got any wages, went out at night to work with Jock and Tammas in their boat, and at every month end he handed to Aunt Janet the money he got to buy things for his master.
"Sam'l," she said, with a twinkle in her eye, "ye can tell Lisbeth Fargus I'll likely be drappin' in on her aboot Mununday or Teisday." Lisbeth was sister to Eppie, and wife of Tammas McQuhatty, better known as T'nowhead, which was the name of his farm. She was thus Bell's mistress. Sam'l leant against the henhouse as if all his desire to depart had gone.
They tell lies, black lies " Tammas is again half out his chair and, only forcibly restrained by the men on either hand. " and then they ha' na the courage to stan' by 'em. Ye're English, ivery man o' ye, to yer marrow." The little man's voice rises as he speaks. He seizes the tankard from the table at his side. "Englishmen!" he cries, waving it before him. "Here's a health!
"I thocht to mysel', 'Tammas Whamond, the Lord has opened a door to you, and you'll be disgraced forever if you dinna walk straucht in. So I rose again, and I says, boldly this time, 'Whaur's that young leddy? I hae something to say to her that canna be kept waiting. "'She's up the stair, she says, surprised, 'but you canna ken her, Mr. Whamond, for she just came last nicht."
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