The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-03-05

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They accordingly journeyed "P the gle
together and, without eNccunteriDS eIfhe
ghost witch, or fairy, they had reached
part of the road from which house. q bar
aud byre were to le seen. The husban
and vic we're aIleady home from the maj
I ket, whittier they had gone to buy a COW
and standing at the end Of the house Wit
their three children. the oldest Of whom ap
tpeared to be q stout GHl, beside them
such scenes seem to have peculiar charu
for women, and Nelly was the FIRST to motto
1T
g Look, Jock, said she, "yondcrs An
drew Braikens and his wife hame frae th
market already. Dina ye see them stan
ing At the end o their house there ana
their three bairns beside their, and baiti
lOokin as happy as the days lang. No"
Jock" she continued, looking in his face a.
she spoke. Z tax an example by them, and
! when ye get wife. if she's guid ane, ay'
tax her advice afore Ony ither bOdys, and
/ yell lever -hae cause TO rue It. Atore
Andrew was married, he ran to a the mar
kets / the round he could never win hame
that day be gaed ava his pouches were
aye toom, and bis duds were aften like to
bid him guid-day. Folk cad him ,ceird
less crGt4r aud neer-dO- ,ceel and when
be fell in vi libby Crawford, some o them
said, if they we're her, they wopldna tax
him, and ithers laugh at him for DRAWN up
wi an auld hizzie ike her but libby took
Andrew, and Andrew took libby s advice
and moo they've a haudin o their ain, vi
plenty o bath meat and elaes, and three
bOnny BARNS into the bargain"
Jock seemed to listen more attentively 10
this harangue than he had ever done to q
sermon on bis life. During thr Latter part
Of it be appeared thoughtful; anil, when It
was concluded" I've been thinkin, said
he, " that, as Andrew and Tibby bae come
sac Weel ON Here he seemed to have
forgotten what he was about y S1y, and was
silent.
Weel, jock, SAID the other, 8 as was
gaun to say, there's Betsy Braikens, a
stout lassie already; she's Sandy Crawford's
cousin, as We ken brawley, and trOth
wouldna wonder muckle at seein her"
"Ou ay, Nelly" interrupted Jock
4 but, as was gaun to tell ye, I've been
thinkin-" Here, however, be again
halted, and seemed to have nothing farther
to say.
Il dinna ken what ye've been tbinkin,
said Nelly, after a considerable pause
F" but ] think they would need to hae {
hantle patience that listen 10 your thoughts
for ye're unco lang O coming out wi them
But, whatever they are, ye medina hesitat,
sac muckle in tellin them to me, for neve
telled a tale O. yours owre again in m,
life"
cts no for that either" said Jock
laughing; "but ] just thought shame f
speak about it, and yet there's nae i'll in t
after a. I've been thinkin, aye since y
wouldna let me gle halfa-crown for you
strOtcL O. lace i the market, that you ant
me micht do waur than make bargain
oorsels I wad just need somebody lk'
you to look after me and moo, Nelly,
you would promise to be my wife, would
never seek anither."
Nelly's countenance Frightened no viii
a glow Of satisfaction, such as it had not ex
bibited for years, at hearing these words
But, striving to suppress those unwonte'
feelings which were rising IN her bosom, am
endeavoring to appear as unconcerned a
before HOot, Jock" was ber reply
" what need / promise though I were L
max twenty promises, ye ken brawly tha
ye would just rim ava and leave me, to fol
low the first bonny lass ye saw, at the mex
market or the next tent-Preachiu and then
qmdd0y 10 ", Neay"
These words, though apparently intende,
to discourage Jock in bis suit, were sPoke1
in such manner as to produce quite con
trary effect We need not, however, n
peat his vows and promises, and the solem
oaths with which he confirmed them: the
were such as have been a thousand time
: made, and, sad to say, nearly as ofte
broken, upon similar occasions. But whe
they were concluded, though Nelly did nc
Z speak, she looked promise which, to Joch
was satisfactory! she also allowed him
have q kiss without the customary battle
or, at least, without battle Of the cul
tomary length; and for what remained (
J that and the two following days, though sh
was three-andthirty, she looked almost q
J young as if she had been only two,an,
/. twenty.
But pleasures, which everybody no
) likens to peoples spread" are, in mo
!. instances, shortlived. On the third da
!, from Abernethy Market, Betsy Braiken
2 in returning from Auchtermuchty, width,
she had been on some errand, called
Howdycraiss. Ito speer for her cousi
. Sandy Crawford, who was the herd laddi
and to tell Nelly KilgOur, Of whom she b
alsO some acquaintance, that GriEzy Glaik
had haen a bairn to GeOrdy GOwkshanl
Nc ane kennel a single thing about it afO
! il cam hamc," continued the girl " and,
he has naething to enable him to pay for
and her father j. determined no to let b
., gang, the folk my that he'll just hae
marry ber
j Geordy Gowkshanks was no other th
the beau who Lad been seen gsilanti
10 . Lizzie Gimmerion through the market a
Nelly felt a strange misgising when {
heard his name mentioned in the prest
. affair, for she doubted not, when matte