The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-10-25
A: SERVANT LASS
BY IAN MAcLAREN.

Widow Grants brave fight to bring up
her orphaned grandchildren had won
the silent respect of the Glen, and when
it was reported that Lily had obtained
place i'll London, and would leave III
three weeks, the fathers gave themselves
to the incident OH ill it's sides:
her duty better than Janet Grant" said
Drumsheugh, with authority. shes
been an example tae every man o's. It's
auchteen year laist Martinmas sin her
dochter's man run aff and his puir. wife
came hame toe dee, leavin' her mother
the Charge of sax young bairns. !,
says I tue her; we ill need a bit alooance.
frae the parish, an all get it for ye next
Roord. A shilling week ilka bairn ill
gang a lang wy i'll yir hands," -, -:
:" Thank ye, Drumsheugh.' She ives
standing at her gate, and drew herself
up STRAIGHT. AM a the neeburs t hev
ane o ma bluid ON the parish, an there
never wull be sac lang as the ALMIGHTY
leaves me ma reason and twa Arms.
Mary had Il puir life ct, an she
deed o the disgrace her man pit OH her
Am :gaein' AVA she said tae me, AN
ave JUST ae thing tae ask, mither; linna
lat the BARNS gaze On the parish; bring
sells. A .gied her ma word, an all keep
it. She lookit graund, fouks," wound
UP Drumsheugh.
She's rael Drumtochty, is Janet" re-
marked Jamie Sontar; for doonricht
pride an thraunness We ill no get their
MARIA in Scotland. What for did she
no tax the ALLOWANCE. She wud haze been
guide few notes the better n -thae
years: mOny an 'oor's wark she MIGHT
haze spared hersel. ...
moo gin Janet he'd been Il wumman
wi proper speerit O humility and kent
her place. she wud haze gruppit n she
cud get, an beggit frae the neeburs,
she didna sit up at NIGHT maxim the
bairns' claithes, and wark in the fields
Il day tae earn their schuling, an a.
tac keep her Independence, as they
cat. Ave seen Janet come intae kirk
wi the sax BARNS afOre her, an she cud,
na haze Carried her head higher he'd she
been the Coontess o Kilspindie.
"A'm judgin' this kind o speerit's in
the vera air O. the Glen, for there's
juist twa aud weemen OIL the parrish:
ane O. thcm's blind, the ither's had a
stroke: naither O them hes freend, an
bath O. them murn every day they Gamma
wark"
"Janets an able wumman," broke in
Hillocks, who was much given to prac>
teal detail; ave seen her hens layin'
in the dead O. winter, and she he'd \
coo. a mind. at gied half as muckle
milk again as any coo in DOR toon. AZ
for plannin', she got ma Sunday blacks
when they were gey far through wit,
an gin she didna first max q jacket for
Charlie at did him for ten year, an
am dootin' she hes tae pay for him yet,
he's no the help he MIGHT haze been as
far as a can max cot; eh, Drums.
heugh?''
"Gin it wesna for him daein' naethin'
and Twin on his family, Hillocks, Lilly
MIGHT stay wi her grannie, and keep
Janet comfortable in her auld age. But
they aye cover him, bath his grannie
and his sister, till We wud think there
Yves never Il better-daein' lad gied DOT
O the Glen. Whatever they say among
themsels. they'll no say word ootside"
What they did say in Janet Grants
cottage that evening was sad enough.
''Weel, weel, lassie, there ives sax
tae begin wi. twa died O the dipthery-
and twa married and gied ava, an
Charlie -. in Ameriky, an. there's
just yersel left, and l ives trustin' ye
her Gen. - =, e-@s';@-5e>- - : e.
"Dinna speak that foolish wy, grannie."
but Lily's voice had to break in it.
"Ye're lokin' fresher than mony young
wumman an We ken am tae get hame
at a time. maybe ilka three year." IL,
Its lang road, Lily, tae Lunnon.
an ill tae traivel; a. may be dead and
buried afore We come back, an all be
terrible lonely, JUST like a bird when
the young anes are taken ava"
"Gin We say anither word all fling up
ma place, an never gang intae service
ava; it's no ma wush tae leave the Glen
an gang sac far frae hame. But we
maun pay the man in Muirtown what
Charlie borrowed, else DOR name ill be
disgraced.'
''It's disgraced eneuch already with
sic useless fellow; he's his father over
again-a fair face, well-dressed back.