The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
WHATS THIs-wHATs THIS HAvEP''

/ see you, lad! You will tell us the truth
of this i'll news that has uptUrned all
! the aud province. BY your gloomy
/ face I see that the major part is over
true. The earl is dead and he awes
me for twenty-four peck of wheaton
meal, forby ten firlots Of malt and
] other sundries, whilk siller, if the hun
cry Ayondale Douglases come into pos
! session, l am little likely ever to see.
! Surely, l have more cause to mourn
| him-a fine lad and free with his haV-
ings. If We gat not settlement this day,
why, then We gat it the neist, with new
/ er word of drawback nor craving for
| batement."
Sholto told them briefly concerning
| the tragedy of Edinburgh, for he had
no will for any waste of words, and as
briefly of the loss of the little maid and
her companion.
The bailie of Dumfries lifted up his
hands in CONSERVATION.
Ills surely plot O. thae Avondales.
| Stra'Yen folk are never to lippen to.
They haze made a clean sweep. No a
speerited ava the bonny bit lass. Man,
Robert, she was heir general to the
| province, bath the lordship o. Gal
| Iowa and the earldOm O. Wigton, for
! thae twa can gang to a lassie. But as
soon as the twa ladies were cot O.
the road, Fat Jamie O. Avondale cam
into the yerldom O. Douglas and a the
| Douglasdale estates, forbye the Bor-
ders and the land in the Hollands.
Woes me for Ninian Halliburton, mer-
chant and indweller in Dumfries, he'll
never see bilt nor hair o. his guild siller
gin that wee lassie be lost Man, Shot,
to, is't no an awful peety?"
During this lamentation, to which
his nephew paid little attention, look
ing only from side to side as they rode
among the willows by the waterside,
the other merchant Robert Semple
had been pondering deeply.
How could she be lost in this coun-
| try of Galloway" ne said. "a land
where there are nought but Douglases
and. men bound body and soul to the
Douglases from SolWay even to the
Black Shore O. Leswalt? 'Tis just no
possibe-Tn wager that it is that HE
land gypsy, Mistress Lindsay, that has
some lovely ploy on hand, and has game
! aft and taen the lass WI her for COM
pany"
At these words Sholto twisted him
about in his saddle as if a wasp had
stung him suddenly.
Master Semple," he said "I would
have you speak more carefully. Mis-
tress Lindsay is a baron's daughter
and has no love ploys, as you are
pleased to call them"
The two burgesses shook with jolly
| significant laughter, which angered
ShOlto exceedingly.
your mirth, sirs, take leave to
tell you, is exceedingly ill-timed," he
said, land I will consider myself we'll
: rid Of your company"
He was riding away when his uncle
set his hand upon the bride of Shot,
to's jennet.
"Bide We, wild laddie," he said,
there is nae service in gaun aft like
a fluff O. tow. My freend here meaned
to speak nae il To- the lass. But at
least ken O. ae love ploy that Mistress
Lindsay is engaged in, or your birses
wadna be so ready to stand on end, my
bonny man! But guild luck to vel We
haze the mair chance o. finding the
flown brides, that We maybes think
mair O. the euey than We think o. the
bit calf. Blu God speed We, I say, for
gin We bring - back the wee lass that's
heir to the braid lands O. Gallowa', it's
an i'll chance Ninian Halliburton has
ever to fill his loot wi the bonny
| gowden angels that (next to high
heeven) are a mans best freeds in an
evil and adulterous generation"