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The sunlight of habitual benevolence began to break through the cloud of wrath upon the good minister's face. 'If I let you off, laddie, what will you do for me in return? An answering gleam of generosity broke upon the sage face of the child. 'I'll fair teach ye how to dae't ye'sel'. The lad grew apace.
"The verra question she'd be askin' ye'sel' wha' gars ye tae come gowkin' an' spierin' aboot here at sic an hour?" "It is my intention to live here, for the future," said I. "Hoot toot! ye'll be no meanin' it?" "But I do mean it," said I. "Eh, man! but ye maun ken the place is no canny, what wi' pixies, an' warlocks, an' kelpies, forbye "
Ye may laugh, Mister Carter, but A' reca' a case wheer a bonnie detective wi' the same name as ye'sel', though A' doot if he wis related to ye, was foiled by the machinations o' Ferdie the Foorger at the moment o' his triumph by the lad gieing him a seegair soaked in laud'num an' chlorofor-rm!"
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