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"I won'er if it means only ance, or may be three times, like 'The Three Wishes!" suggested Sandy, who, like most Christians, would rather have a talk about it than do what he was told. "We might ask for what would not be good for us!" returned Andrew. "And make fools of ourselves!" assented Sandy, with "The Three Wishes" in his mind. "Do you think He would give it us then?" "I don't know."
He could do full justice to his breakfast, indeed; but he was saying to himself all the while, "I won'er 'f I'll ebber git used to dis yer. It's jes' awful, dis goin' to de 'cad'my." Three large trunks and one small one were delivered at Mrs. Myers's front door before that first breakfast was disposed of; and Miss Almira remarked of the boys, a few minutes later,
Hit's a won'er you ain' been de deaf er him 'fo' I got yer wid yo' sto' physicks en yo' real doctahs es dunno one baby f'om anur when dey meet 'im in de street. I reckon, ef he'd got de colic you'd have kilt 'im terreckly, you en yo' sto' physicks en yo' real doctahs! Now, you'd des better dress yo'se'f an' go down yonder ter de parlour."
But I'll speir ye nae mair, sir, said the herd. I fear what ye micht say neist. Ye wad but won'er the mair, said the bird, To see the thouchts i' my breist. And aye he sang, an' better he sang, An' the worms creepit in an' oot; An' ane he tuik, an' twa he loot gang, But still he carolled stoot.
I bit him awful one time, and he hit me on the head with a rake, and I went to sleep. Edward's forehead was damp with sweat. 'Merciful God! he thought, 'that such things should be! 'And when I've heard things screaming and crying to be loosed, and them in traps, and never a one coming to 'em but me, it's come o'er me to won'er who'd loose me out if I was in a trap. 'God would.
She went and prepared the little meal, and after taking it he went to sleep. In the evening, with the help of their questioning, he told them everything he could recall from the moment he woke to find the place abandoned, not omitting his terrors on the way, until he overtook the rear of the garrison. 'I dinna won'er ye was fleyt, Francie, said Kirsty.
"Mammy, we won't never run away any more," said Diddie, as Mammy came up; "'twas Dumps's fault, anyhow." "Nem min', yer ma's gwine whup yer," said Mammy; "yer'd no business at dis gin-house long o' dat sheep, an' I won'er what you kinky-head niggers is fur, ef yer can't keep de chil'en in de yard: come yer ter me!"
I won'er you dunna hear 'em screaming. His cause was lost, and he knew it, but he pleaded on. 'No. If I hadna swore by the Mountain I wouldna come, she said. 'You've got blood on you. At that moment a neighbour passed and offered Hazel a lift. Now that she was marrying a minister, she had become a personality.
She sat down beside what was left of Steenie, and ate of the oatcake, and drink of the milk she had carried forgotten until now. 'I won'er what God 'll du wi' the twa! she said to herself. 'Gien I lo'ed them baith as I did, he lo'es them better! I wud hae dee'd for them; he did! She rose and went out. Light had come at last, but too dim to be more than gray.
'Haud to that, Dauvid, and hand me till't: we kenna what's comin! 'The wull o' God's comin, insisted David. 'But eh, he added, 'I'm concernt for puir Maister Craig! 'Weel, lat's awa hame and see whether the twa bena there afore 's! Eh, but the sicht o' the bonny corp maun hae gien Steenie a sair hert! I wudna won'er gien he never wan ower't i' this life!
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