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Updated: June 28, 2025
I likened the parish to a widow woman with a small family, sitting in her cottage by the fireside, herself spinning with an eident wheel, ettling her best to get them a bit and a brat, and the poor weans all canty about the hearthstane the little ones at their playocks, and the elder at their tasks the callans working with hooks and lines to catch them a meal of fish in the morning and the lassies working stockings to sell at the next Marymas fair. -And then I likened war to a calamity coming among them the callans drowned at their fishing the lassies led to a misdoing and the feckless wee bairns laid on the bed of sickness, and their poor forlorn mother sitting by herself at the embers of a cauldrife fire; her tow done, and no a bodle to buy more; drooping a silent and salt tear for her babies, and thinking of days that war gone, and, like Rachel weeping for her children, she would not be comforted.
In the lea of the kirk many hundreds of the town were gathered together; but there was no discourse among them. The major part were sailors' wives and weans, and at every new thud of the blast, a sob rose, and the mothers drew their bairns closer in about them, as if they saw the visible hand of a foe raised to smite them.
"Drink up," she cries, "it's a rid tinker's night this." "Why red tinkers, Meg?" says Dan, raising his head from close confab wi' the captain. "Ye ken the story fine," says she, "how the weans hiv the red hair tae keep them warm maybe, lying oot." "Not me, my lass," says Dan; "sit down here beside me and tell us."
"Simon," said the laird, "I hae left it as an injunction upon my mother, that yer wife an' weans be provided for she will fulfil my request. Therefore, be ye content. Die like a man, an' dinna disgrace both yourself an' me." "O sir!
Hawk and harp were all the properties the princesses-errant took with them; but Jean, as her old nurse sometimes declared, loved Skywing better than all the weans, and Elleen's small travelling-harp was all that she owned of her father's except the spirit that loved it. 'I bowed my pride, A horse-boy in his train to ride. SCOTT.
An', 'deed, gien it warna that the wives an' the verra weans hae themsel's to fecht i' the same battle o' guid an' ill, I dinna see the muckle differ there wad be atween them an' the fish, nor what for they sudna ate ane anither as the craturs i' the watter du.
On Saturday last, when he was paid his weekly wages by the steward, he met a puir sickly-lookin' auld wife, wi' a string o' sickly-looking weans at the body's heels; she didna ask him for charity, for, in troth, he appeared, binna it wearna for the weans, as great an objeck as hersel'; noo, what wad yer honor think? he gaes ower and gies till her a hale crown o' siller out o' his ain wage.
The guilty Marion was touched with her sorrow, and for a moment seemed to relent and melt, replying in a softened accent, "But tell me, Eppie, for ye hae na telt me yet, how did ye leave my weans?" "Would you like to see them?" said Elspa, eagerly. "I would na like to gang to Crail," replied her sister, thoughtfully; "but if " and she hesitated.
We have, even through our tears, admired that discipline which sometimes prepares the young to die; which, by sharp trials of anguish, and long days of weariness, weans them from that keen sense of mortal enjoyment which is so naturally theirs; which, through the attenuation of the body, illuminates the soul, and, as it steals the bloom from the cheek, kindles the lustre of faith in the eye, and makes even that young spirit look, unfaltering, across the dark river, and, putting aside its earthly loves and its reasonable expectations, exclaim, "Now I am ready!"
All the weans were out parading with napkins and kail-blades on sticks, rejoicing and triumphing in the glad tidings of victory.
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