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"Dealing ponies then?" asked Pete. "Anything, sir; anything. Buying for farmers up Lonan way," said Black Tom. "Come on," said Pete; "here's Cæsar with a long-horned cow." They found the good man tethering a white, long-horned cow to the wheel of the tipped-up gig. "How do, Cæsar? And how much for the long-horn?" said Black Tom. Quilliam. Examine her for yourself," said Cæsar.
She came to herself, though, when a woman near her, without lowering her voice, said with an amused look, "I'm glad that nice child in the corner is looking happier. It's positively cruel to allow so young a girl to mope about like that." Patricia retained enough of her spirit to look the amused lady calmly in the eyes, while her pretty tipped-up nose assumed a more sprightly angle.
Sandy remarked, "Ye wadna think, noo, sic a sonsie doggie wad be leevin' i' the murky auld kirkyaird." Bobby had learned the lay of the tipped-up and scooped-out and jumbled auld toon, and he led the way homeward along the southern outskirts of the city. He turned up Nicolson Street, that ran northward, past the University and the old infirmary.
Traill asked him why he had let so valuable a man go, and the farmer replied at once that he was getting old and could no longer do the winter work. To any but a Scotchman brought up near the sheep country this would have sounded hard, but Mr. Traill knew that the farmers on the wild, tipped-up moors were themselves hard pressed to meet rent and taxes.
The next time she saw Philip, he passed her in the market-place on the market-day, as she stood by the tipped-up gig, selling her butter. There was a chatter of girls all round as he bowed and went on. This vexed her, and she sold out at a penny a pound less, got the horse from the "Saddle," and drove home early. On the way to Sulby she overtook Philip and drew up.
She lay deep in the snow, but fortunately was not hurt. Both gazed at the tipped-up ice boat in very great dismay. "Bert, whatever shall we do now?" asked Nan, after a spell of silence. "We'll never get home at all!" "Oh, yes, we shall," he said, bravely enough, but with a sinking heart. "We've got to get home, you know." "But the ice boat is upset, and it's so dark I can't see a thing."
With which cheering assurance she consigned him to some one else a maid with a tipped-up nose and presently he found himself being "shown up"; that was the expression used. The room into which he was ushered was a parlor. Absently he seated himself. The maid tittered. He looked at her or rather the tipped-up nose, an attractive bit of anatomy. Saucy, provocative! Mr.
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