Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-24

| away she waved her scarf until they were
| out of sight.
"Poor Grizzly only few weeks passed
before she knew that of all those gallant
men hardly a score, wounded, half
! starved, hunted like wolves, had crawled
back to their glens; and her father over
; powered, after desperate resistance,
I was taken away to prison.
"Ah, how many tears were shed in
Scotland and England during those
hideous daysi ALI over the country the
the Kings dragons were shooting and
burning. They burned down the houses,
| and broke the stones of the mills, and
| tore up the fruit trees SO that all the
| country about Inverary, where the Earl
of Argyle lived, was desert. They cut
off the poor prisoners ears when they did
| not kill them outright, before sending
them across the sea to be slaves. In Eng
land wicked Judge Jeffries condemned
| the rebels as fast as he could pass SEN
tence.
''But dare not tell you all the wicked
ness that was done. Long ago, the cruel
| King lost his crown and died wanderer;
long ago, the cruel Judge died, In prison,
| amid the curses of whole nation-they
were punished as rig orously as the bad
giants in your fairy tales, and my story
is not about them, but about poor Grizzly
Cochrane, who bas just heard that her
father is in the strong Edinburgh prison
condemned to die.
| "She thought of all the friends that
| her father had. Some of them could
not help him, because they, like
him, were rebels, and in hiding
to keep their own heads on their
! shoulders. But there was Lord Dun
donald, her grandfather. He had not
joined the insurgents. Perhaps (for the
cruel King loved money! by paying a
great bribe they might win her fathers
ife. Therefore, fast, fast are thunder
ing the horses hoof along the rocky road
to London and Lord Dundonald! And
faster, faster thunder the horses hoofs
along the road to Edinburgh and Sir
John in prison. It is Grizzy's trustiest
! retainer rides to London with letter
that Grizzly has cried over, in his bosom.
But it is Grizzly herself flies through the
night to her father!
ga kind man who loved the Coch-
ranes has written ballad about Grizzly.
The ballad says-I only change the
words that you will understands:
"'She kissed her fathers tangled locks
Unkempt for many day,
And she said: ITO save my fathers life
l aiblins ken a way.
Give me thy love, that fortune prove!
Quoth Cochrane's bonny daughter
"But Sir John, while it made him
happy to see Grizzly, would not believe
that she could help him. He told her
that Lord Dundonald had kneeled down
before the King and asked his sons life
in vain.
"Tru!y enough of this KiLg did one
of his courtiers say to poor suppliant,
while he touched the marble mantei:
This marble is not harder than the
Klngn
Nevertheless Grizzly felt sure that if
Lord Dundonald could raise the money
he could brike some of the Kings Coun-
Gil.
8: But, dearie, said her old nurse,
who had come after her, bouncing her
poor old bones on the gentlest horse she
could find, for yon must know there was
no such thing as carriage in that part
of the Highlands then, 'dearie, the
warrants OUT"
"What's warrant?" said Harry.
His aunt explained: GA warrant is the
order that the King writes to have any
one put to death. Until the warrant
comes the Sheriff has no right to execute
a prisoner.
"Well, Grizzy's nurse cried that they
had word from sure hand that the
King had signed the warrant, and it
would be coming by the London mail,
reaching Edinburgh the very next day.
No sooner should the warrant come than
the prisoner must die! So the poor nurse
threw her apron over the gray head and
wept; for Sir John was kind master
"'Hist, nurser said Grizzly, hist
there's no time for greeting'-that is the
Scotch for crying-'ye maun get me
your short lads claithes. And mind We
let nae soul on earth ken I'm in the
house mourning like to dee
1.-THE nurse was made to understand
somehow what Grizzly wanted. And very
soon she came out again, mounted her
horse, and, all alone, rode across the long
bridge of the Tweed.
"She galloped over the moor to a
clump of trees. A pretty girl of sixteen
went into the shade of the larches, but
what do you think? A handsome, black
haired boy came Quit"
''It was only ner dressed up!" said
Harry.
eyes. it was Only she. dressed un-in