The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-12

anxious to come at the explanation Of
the matter.
"What's tame ye, Rab, since ye gaed
awa?" asked one of his mates. I'VE
used to be sair again the Papes
Haze ye turned your coat?'
"Nay" said Rob, II haze. neither
turned Pape nor yet Methody in my
auld age, but for a. that I'm tellin'
We that the man VIVA NEEDLES WI the
English chiel will ken the smell O.
my knuckles!"
There was a respectful silence. Sew
eral had tried the perfume mentioned,
but had misliked it.
"Come your ways to the wood end
an I'll tell We the tale" said Rob, in
is conscious that he has hardly done
justice to the softer emotions.
moo, hearken," said Muckle Rob,
into the convenient posture Of atten-
l haze dune, yell agree on a new
quoitin' green. Or else-well, Wen
gree on a new quoitin' green!
ut was my wee Archie, him that
was ta'en last year when he was 49,.
Ye maybe mind o. him. He keeped
the second door on the west side o.
No. Pit. He was boy like the rest
O. the reckless loons-couid lee and
sWeer, and aiblins, when I was ma
within hearin', TAX a drap drink and
smoke his pipe wi the aulder anes.
Fine do I ken that my lad was nae
wee white hen that never laid away!
but ae pay-Saturday, wha should
come frae Manchester but the lads
auntie, our Elizabeth's sister, We ken
wha's man has done so weel at the
pack An she telled Airchie ABBOTT
the grand place that the toon was,
and the big pays, and the theayturs,
an a the ongauns, till she had the
laddie fair by himself 1 mis-caa'ed
her for a daft haverer pittin' notions
into the bit bairn's head.
"But after that we had nae peace
Archie feeced and cried on, till nocht
wad serve but he maun gang ava
back to Manchester WI his auntie-
her payin' his passage and giein' him
meat, as it were. So that we had no
great loss, but only his days wage
moo for woman that was sic q
warrior at the eatin' an drinkin, for
her weight was twenty stane an her
customary drink stone ale, Marget was
an awsome woman for meetin's an
preachin's-just fair unbelievable
and as for texts, boys-O, she could
rattle them aft like string O. empties
gaun doom the dock. She never got to
the end O. yin O. them, afore the ithe1
was at it's tail
$50 kenned Weel what the laddie
wad get in Manchester. There was
his uncle-a muckle baggit English
man that had made heap O. silver by
keepin' nocht but prentices to the
pack, and sackin' them before theil
time was DOT. He took Archie to the
theaytur the ae nicht-an' the next his
auntie Marget CARED him trot AVA
MIGHTY unWillin', to some O. her revi
val meetin's!
'But O. them a., there was no yir
that Archie cared a docken for, till or
the Saturday Marget gets word O. 6
terrible genteel kid-glove Methody
meetin'. The folk were just crazy tx
gang to it, because it was madden il
the head kirk O. the place, that wa!
caad the cathedral. Though what fol
it Wasna .juist decently caa'ed 'th,
kirk is MAR than I can tell We.
"Jam-packed it was at ony rat,
Wucu mAlSet dill AlIcule got Clere
They were squeezed like herrings, ant
it was as warm as lying on your bacl
in the pit an howkin' at the roof. TIL
preacher chap was a'done up in !.
sheet, WI a face like chalk, hair lik,
ink, and cen like holy fire. Marge
said when she cam home that she ha,
heard some preachin in her life-mai
maybe than had done her muckl
; good, but there was nocht in a. he
experience to touch that chap. H,
mixed the folk up, he twisted them
he CARED them laugh or greet just a
If they had been BARNS an him tn
J dominic.
"Maget was in great fettle go he