The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-05

chief SIN, that ne should nave hanu IN
hagging and hashing at Christ's Kirk. But
the truth Is that he resisted the spirit.
Day cam, there were the rousing compaIn-
ions, and his guild resolves departit.
In thir days. dwalled upon the Bass
man of God. Peden the Prophet was his
name. Ye'il have heard tell of Prophet
Peden There was never the vale OF him
sinsyne, and it's a question vi mony If
there ever was his like afore. He was wild
s 8 peat hag fearsoFne 10 look at, fear
some to hear his face ike the day of judg-
mens The voice Of him was ike solan's.
and dinnte'd in folks Tugs, and the words
of him ike Goals OF ire.
Now there was lass on the rock. and
think she had little 10 do, for il was nae
| place FAR dacent weemen, but il seems she
| was bonny, and her and Tam Dale were
very well agreed. 1t beieil that Peden
! was in the guirien his lane at the praying
/ when Tam and the lass cam by; and wha.
should the iassie do but mock with
| laughter at the SAINTS devotion. He rose
| and loosit at the twa o them, and TaIn's
/ knees knoitered thegither at the look OF
| him. But when he spak it was MAR in
| sorrow than in anger. Poor thing, poor
thing'' says he. and it was the lass he
| iookit at. 81 hear you skirl and laugh"
says he, ''but the Lord has deid shot pre-
| pared for you, and at that surprising
| judgment ye shall skirl but the az time"
| Shortly thereafter she was Laundering on
| the craigs VII twa-three sodgers, and IL was
| biawy day. There cam gowst OF wind,
| caught her by the coats, and ava WI her
| bag and baggage. And ii was remarked
| by the sodgers that she gied but the ae
| skir.
Nae doubt this judgment had some
| WEIGHT upon Tam Dale; but it passed again
and him none the better. Ae day he was
| fiyting wi anither sodger-lad. '.Deii haze
| meV quo Tam, for he was a profane
! and there Urn poAan or
at him cash an waefu'; Peden, wi his
lang chats an huntin' cen. the maud
Mapped about his kist, and the hand
| of him held out VII the black nails upon
the finger nebs-for he had nae care of the
body-"Fy, fly, poor man" cries he, "the
poor fool man! Dell haze me, quo ne, an I
see the dell at his oxter." The conviction
| of guilt and the grace cam in on Tam ike
the deep sea; he fang down the pike that
| was IN his hands-"I will nae. MAR lift
arms against the cause O Christi" says he,
and was as GUIDES word. There was sair
fyke in the beginning, but the governor,
| seeing him resolved. gied him his dis
charge, and he went and dwaiit and mer-
ried in North Berwick, and had aye guide
| name with honest folk frae that day on
1t was In the year seventeen hummer
and sax that the Bass cam in the hands o.
the Da'rymples, and there was twa men
| SOUGHT the charge of it, Bath were weei
1
| In the garrison, and kent the gate to
| handle solans, and the seasons and values
/ OF them. Forby that they were baith-or
they bath seemed-earnest professors and
| men OF comely conversation. The first Of
| them was just Tam Dale. my father. The
| second was ane Lapraik, whom the folk
| cad Tod Lapraik maistly, but whether for
his name or his nature could never hear
| tell. Weel, Tam gaed to see Lapraik upon
this business, and took me. that was tod
dim laddie, by the hand. Tod had his
dwallin' in the lang loan benorth the kirk
| that the kirk has aye had an i'll name since
| the days o James the Saxt and the dee
| viPsN cantrips played therein when the
| queen was on the seas; and as for
| Tod's house, it was in the mirk-
est end and was little liked by
was on the sneck that day. and me
and my father gaed straucht in. Tod
was a wabster to his trade; his loom stood
in the hut. There he sat, muckle fat.
white hash of man like creish, in a kind
OF holy smile that CART me scunner. The
his cen was stocked. We cried to him by
his name. we skirled in the deid lug of
him, We shook him by the shouther. Nae
MANNER o service! There he sat on his
dowp, an cawed the shuttle and smiled
like creish.
OOu Dc SUiu 10 US, saws lam Uatc,
''thls is no canny!
He had jump said the word when Tod
Lapraik came To himself.
us this you, Tam 2" says he. Hath,
man! I'm blythe TO see We. whites ia
into bit dwam like this" he says, Its
frae the stammach."
Weel. they began to crack about the Bass
and which of them twa was 10 get the
warding OF, and by little and little cam to
very i'll words. and twined in anger. mind
weel, that as my father and me gaed hame
again, he cam over and over the same ex-
preston, how little he likit Tod Lapraik
and his dwams.
'Dwam" says he. II think folk hae
brunt far dwams like yon."
Aweel, my father got the Bass and Tod
had to go wantin'. 1t was remembered
sinsyne what way he had taen the thing
Tam" says he. I'VE hae gotten the better
O. me aimee MAR. and l hope" says he,
veil find at least a. that We expeckit at
the Bass" Which have since peen
thought remarkable expressions. At last
the time came for Tam Dale TO take Young
solans. This was q business he was well
used wi; he had been craigs man frae a
laddie, and trustit name but himself.
So there was he hingin' by line an
speldering on the craig faces, whaur
it's Incest and steighest. Fower tenty
lads were on the tap, hauldin' the
line and mindin' for his signals. But
Wnaur lam hung tnere was naething but
the craig and the sea below, and the solans
skirling and flying. 1t was a Draw spring
morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in
the young geese. Mony's the time heard
him tell of this experience, and aye the
swat ran upon the man.
1t CHANGED. We see, that Tam keeked up,
and he was awaur of a muckle soian, and
the solan pyking at the line. He thocht
this by-ordinar and outside the creatures
habits. He minded that ropes was unco
saft things. and the soian's neb and the
Bass rock unco hard. and that twa hummer
feet were rather mair than he would care
to fa'
"Shoo" says Tam. "Awa', bird! Shoe,
AVA wi ye" says he.
The solan keekit down into Tam's face
and there was somethins unco in the crea-
lures ee. Just the ae keek it gied. and
back TO the rope. But now it WROUGHT
and warstlet like thing dementit. There
never was the soian made that WROUGHT
as that solan wrought; and it seemed to
understand its employ brawiy, birzing the
saft rope between the neb of it and
crunkled jag o. rock.
There gaed cauld stend o fear into
Tam's heart. This thing is nae Bird
thinks he His cen turnt backward In his
held and the day gaed black about him.
IF get dwam here" he THOUGHT. Its
by wi Tam Dale" And he signaled fur
the lads to pa him up.
And il seemed the solan understood
about signals. For nae sooner was the
s;s al do ba, no Iat ha > a rr,,>a