Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-19

,nornin', ta'en his bit can ana ssct col
whistlin' like mavis. They laid him
doom, and syne DOR doctor cam He
was kind and quiet touchin' and ban
dagin', and aye wi a Joke an n heart
some word" SIX \
.'Three cheers for the doctor, said
some one in the background. But
Muckie Bob took no heed, hut steadily
told his tale. HI u
..Neel he babe Archie besa guild lad,
to mind his prayers, and do what his
mither telled him, an he wad garter
the pit some day vet. ssg
"But, lads. when he gaetl DOT, he
gied yon thraw O. his nose over his
shooder at me, where was standing
like a useless lump in the corner.
saw he wanted me to speak at the
door, an my heart gaed down like
lead. 4
Rob- he said, layin' his hand upon
my arm, better let Archie get what
ne wants. He will no want l. lang.
An. lads, / was near the greetin',
dinna need to tell yc hoo near, for re
ken.
But Archie wanted naething, only
to be letten alane. Sac in the after
nune his mither said to HON. sAirchie.
lad, We had better kell-yc are gam to
leave us, Airchie-to leave your faith
err an your mlther. IL there ocht that
We wad like dune"
"But Archie lay still and made nae
mair sign, than If she had telled him
to gang to 'hush-a-by' when he was q
BARN. But in a while he said. NTH
er, if maun dee, L wad like awSome
we'll to see the chap in the white COON,
that preached when was wi AuDtie
Marget'
But we talked to him an argufied
wi him. to pit him by the notion, say
in that the man was some great
Englisher and besides "a that, 1t was
an awful lang road off. And 1t wasna
to be expected that he could leave his
wark an come ava to see q collier
Lad here in Scotland. Sac we asked
him gin the minister here wadna do,
for he was a decent man and weel
liked.
"But Archie was MIGHTY set in his
| expected, but If Gamma haze the chap
in the white COON to speak to me,
| want naebody,' says he.
''Sae as was writing to his auntie
| to tell ABBOTT the accident at ony rate,
| put in a ABBOTT what Archie had said
| never thinkin' but that it wad juist
| pleasure her to ken that Archie mind
| ed the preachin', wi nae thocht ava O.
ony thing marie.
| But Marget was ever, as We ken, q
| forritsome woman, think it gmaun
| haze been WI companyin' SO muckle wi
| thae Englishers, for it wasna o. her
kind O. folk. Sac as soon as she got
| the letter what does the daft woman
| do but pits on her bonnet an ava to
| the graund hose whaur Master Cox
| Noble (for that was the name o. the
chap leeved. But he wasna In. He
was ava on his holidays that vera
| mornin', ava in Cornwall, where the
| Methody miners comes frae He was
| fair dune wi workin' ut his reviyalin',
the hoosekeeper said.
But says she, We MIGHT tell me
what We cam ABBOTT, if it's no secret
For the master likes to hear when he
comes hame.' Then Marget telled her
| a. ABBOTT the puir lad that had been
hurt AVA in the north. jaloose she
was glad to haze somebody to tell. And
sac she gaed her ways back hame.
| "But the woman maun haze sent the
| preacher word on the instant. Tor 1t
I was the very next mornin' that we had
a TELEGRAPH to speer hoo Archie was,
an hoo lang the doctor thocht he wad
last. 1t said forbye that NJ. Cox No
bic was just aft lang journey and
| vera tired, but to let him ken in case
| O need.
$50 as the doctor was in at the time
| on his rounds he said that he wad send
| message. But what he said I never
kenned, for he has his ways, the doc
tor, and is no easy man to speet at.
"We were a. sittin' up wi Archie
| that night and could see he sWadna
be lang. 1t was far over III the
| fornin'-on the back O. twa, that there
cam chaplin at the door. The laddie's
| mither gaed to it, thinkin' 1t was
aiblins a neebour coined to speer hoo
| Archie was. But when she opened 1t,
| there on the step wi wee bag In his
hand, was the Englishy parson, an
| the sheet he had preached In, wi the
cen O. him fair sunk in his head WI
travel and want O. sleep. Sax hunder
| chic. We cOuldna speak to him, we
war that pitten aboot.
$50 he cam ben, and We should haze
seen the laddie's face as pleased like
| as if he had seen an angel frae
| heeven.
"I can dee noov he cried.
"And there the Englishy chlel sat,
wi my boys hand in his, a. the NIGHT
till the mornin' while speaking q wee
an while no.
"And so they sat till Archie heard
the doors opening up and doom the
raw and the men gangin' ava to the
| pit wi their CANNES and their lamps.
"'That is the day shift, minister,
he said, Il maun gang. tool
"An' that was the way DOR wee Air
chic gaed DOT WI the day shift!
And at the road end, there was ST.
lencc a little when the tale was done,
and Muckie Rob sat with his hand
| covering his brow. ~
At last Pete Miller spoke.
"Well, haze nae mair quoitin' over BY
| the chapel he said.
"Na,'' said all the men, rising to-
| gether very soberly.. mae MAR quoit-
in at the Chapel after this! st.
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