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MacLean said nothing; but she filled the young people's pockets with oat-cakes, and stood watching them as they walked soberly along the path. 'It's too late to go to Mrs. Macdonnell before dinner-time, said Allan, who seemed to be glad of an excuse to postpone so trying an interview. 'You'd better come with us, Hamish and Marjorie; it's half-past twelve now; much too late for you to go home.
There were plenty of other good things on the table, but the honey and oat-cakes were the characteristic part of the meal, never omitted in Mrs Fleming's preparations for visitors. She had not forgotten the old Scottish fashion of pressing the good things upon her guests, but there was not much of this needed now, and she looked on with much enjoyment.
Over the middle of the room, suspended by cords from the ceiling, was a framework of wood crossed all over by strings, on which lay, ready for consumption, a good store of crisp-looking oat-cakes; while, to give still further life to the whole, a bird-cage hung near, in which there dwelt a small colony of canaries. Such was the room into which Johnson timidly entered.
Two huge baskets, one of bread made of barley and pease, and one of oat-cakes, flanked this standing dish.
Wonder whether it is that one I knew, and he smelt me and come to see. Yah! Stuff! He smelt the fruit. Oh! here he is again." The next time the trunk reappeared Peter Pegg was ready with one of the oat-cakes broken in half.
You can trifle with your breakfast and seem to disdain your dinner if you are full to the brim with roasted eggs and potatoes and richly frothed new milk and oat-cakes and buns and heather honey and clotted cream. "They are eating next to nothing," said the nurse. "They'll die of starvation if they can't be persuaded to take some nourishment. And yet see how they look." "Look!" exclaimed Mrs.
"Iss it to fush, ye'll be wantin'?" asked Ian, as he ushered the party into his cottage, where Mrs Anderson was baking oat-cakes, and Aggy was busy knitting socks with her thin fingers as deftly and rapidly as if she had been in robust health. "Yes, that is our object to-day," said Mabberly. "Good-day, Mrs Anderson; good-day, Aggy.
"It doesn't signify; we'll take a lantern; I've got my gun, and Ian has his dirk!" "Where are you going then?" asked Mercy, still confused. "Home, of course." "Oh, yes, of course! I will get up in a minute." "There is plenty of time," said Ian. "You must eat something before you get up. We, have nothing but oat-cakes, I am sorry to say!" "I think you promised me some tea!" said Mercy.
"Poor old soul, you shall not die of cold!" said he; then, helping him to rise, he added cheerily, "We will go to my mother's cottage, and have a warm supper of oat-cakes and herrings; and our fire of dry boughs will do you good." The noble boy knew there was barely supper enough for two, but did not mind going hungry to bed for charity's sake.
TIERRA TEMPLADA. the temperate region. TORO, a bull. TORTILLAS, thin cakes made of Indian corn, resembling oat-cakes; see p. 33. TRAPICHE, a sugar-mill. ULEI, see Hule. VAQUERO, cow-herd.
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