The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-24

Have they all BEEN rabbled since the
Kings Popish proclamation. or have
they yet learned to read without their
finger at the line?"
There is one of them out of place,
and that in the good parish OF Morton
said I. which it is my hope to obtain by
the good will of Drumlanris.'
"Ye are some kin to him. l have
heard sayr said Sir James, pawkily.
mo kin whatsoever" l made answer,
with some heat. save that my mother
was sometime maid 10 the old Lady
Drumlanrig."
And left Of her own accord to be
married to Gibby Beli the Muirkirk
carrier-well do 1 mind Of H." said Sir
James.
So we had bite of bread and stoup of
ale together, and were merry in sober
and sedate fashion, speaking chiefly OF
the evil state Of tine country, Of the
exaetions of the Kings men which
waxed worses and worse, and the
frenzy of the fanatical party that
threatened to turn the world upside
down If they had their will.
Presently the lass Of the change
house, comely one and plump, to
whom, for my shamiag, Sir James
slandered me. telling her that l was
merry curate and gamesome, opened
the door and came ben TO u where we
sat table.
"Gentlemen," she said, speaking very
we'll and clearly for a country lass,
''bear with me if I say that it behooyes
you TO set out ere it be dusk, for there
are i'll folk about, and you might come
to an injury"
(which" said Sir James, "you wish
not to so sportive a lad as this my
friend here, and one that hath beard
to his face wherein there Is yet not a
hair of gray
Indeed" said she, turning on him
with spirit, II see nought the matter
with the young mans beard, nor yet
seems ne so merry as those whose
boards are grayer, and therefore might
have more sense"
"And well said for brave lass"'
cried Sir James. "The maid had me
on the hip that time and has thrown
me fairly. Here is a silver shilling for
you, Marget. What hast thou to say
to that?"
The plump, well-shapen maid-servant
took the silver piece between her teeth
and bit upon 1t sedately.
IT say that your silver is better than
your wit (Which God mendD, Sir
James" she said, and looked at me as
she said 1t, In a way that was not be-
coming to reply to. SO that Instead, /
looked with modesty upon the ground.
Then with that and no more we
mounted and rode away, both of us be-
ing we'll horsed, Sir James riding upon
a hackney of gray, and / on roam,
which Drumlanrig had given me from
O. wings farmhouse-ore of the
Welshes of Scaur as I learned after
ward, when they came upon me to
make me restore 1t.
1t was by solitary pass that broke a
4 way through the hills, where the wa
"Hopes." that Sir James and i were
riding slowly. talking peaceably, and
taking solid pleasure in our conversa-
tion. For Sir James had ever lean
ing to the things of the Kirk, and, IL
his star had risen in the right season.
he had made none so i'll minister. So
we discoursed of foreknowledge, of the
right of the civil magistrate, and of the
Urim and Thummim, which are all
vexed and difficult questions; so that
It was great pleasure to me to dispute
with one so learned and discreet as Sir
James, though he was, to my thinking,
i. ever little over-Whiggish in his be-
llefs, and. as knew, had no great opin-
ion of those ministers who had taken
the Test.
We went thus daintily and costly
along, pacing upon our ambling pal
freys, when all of a sudden-"Crack!'
There went off a shot behind us, and
Sir James' horse set its head down and
spread its heels in the air. .,. ~.
looked over my shoulder and saw a
tall young man. riding upon heavy
cart-horse as 1t had been fresh from a
plow tail, and with pair of pistols
ready bended in his hand, pursuing af-
ter us with a dark and fearsome coun-
tenance. At this had very great fear,