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Updated: June 23, 2025
My heart sank within me on the following forenoon, when Sandy Whamond walked, with a queer twitching face, into the front pew under a glare of eyes from the body of the kirk and the laft. An amazed buzz went round the church, followed by a pursing up of lips and hurried whisperings. Evidently Sandy had been driven to it against his own judgment.
If wee Eppie Whamond's birth had been deferred until the beginning of the week, or humility had shown more prominently among her mother's virtues, the kirk would have been saved a painful scandal, and Sandy Whamond might have retained his eldership. Yet it was a foolish but wifely pride in her husband's official position that turned Bell Dundas's head a wild ambition to beat all baptismal record.
"It was a dog barking at somebody that's stoning it. I ken that sound, Hendry Munn." "May I die the death, Tammas Whamond, if a great drap o' rain didna strike me the now, and I swear it was warm. I'm for running hame." "I'm for seeing who drove awa that dog. Come back wi' me, Hendry." "I winna. There's no a soul on the hill but you and me and thae daffing and drinking gypsies.
Whamond, she says solemnly, 'you've come thrice to the manse to keep me frae being uneasy about my son's absence, and you was the chief instrument under God in bringing him to Thrums, and I'll gie you a little o' that hair. "Dagont, what did I care about his hair? and yet to see her fondling it! I says to myself, 'Mrs.
"I would rather resign," Spens said, but shook when Whamond hurled these words at him: "'And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." "It mayna be true," Hendry said eagerly. "We'll soon see." "He would gie her up," said Tosh. "Peter Tosh," answered Whamond sternly, "I call upon you to dismiss the congregation."
But having my choice of scandals I prefer the christening one the unique case of Eppie Whamond, who was born late on Saturday night and baptized in the kirk on the following forenoon. To the casual observer the Auld Licht always looked as if he were returning from burying a near relative.
"And now," said the precentor, "I call upon the three o' you to come wi' me. Hendry Munn, you gang first." "I maun bide ahint," Hendry said, with a sudden fear, "to lock up the kirk." "I'll lock up the kirk," Whamond answered harshly. "You maun gie me the keys, though," entreated the kirk officer. "I'll take care o' the keys," said Whamond.
Margaret returned to the parlor, and from the kitchen Jean could hear the heater tilted backward and forward in the box-iron a pleasant, homely sound when there is happiness in the house. Soon she heard a step outside, however, and it was followed by a rough shaking of the barred door. "Is it you, Mr. Dishart?" Jean asked nervously. "It's me, Tammas Whamond," the precentor answered.
Then there were several masons, one of whom, like the first baker, had found work for all the others, and there were men who had drifted into trades strange to their birthplace, and there was usually one at least who had come to London to "better himself" and had not done it as yet. The family Tommy liked best was the Whamonds, and especially he liked old Petey and young Petey Whamond.
The foreigner from York that Finny's grieve after disappointing Jinny Whamond took, sought to sow the seeds of strife by urging that Friday was an unlucky day; and I remember how the minister, who was always great in a crisis, nipped the bickering in the bud by adducing the conclusive fact that he had been married on the sixth day of the week himself. It was a judicious policy on Mr.
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