Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-19
A GALLOWAY HERD. ~ dB .s..,
Author Of "The Lilac "The Raiders"
Minister" bog, Myrtle Peat" Etc, = = y -

countenance was barely o this earth
Salr dlslaskit an no manlike ava'-mair
Ike lassle far game in a decline; but
raised-hke too, an wi a kind o defiance
in it. as if he war DARN the ALMIGHTY to
Man, Rob, houp may never see thu
like again.
''Ay. man, Saunders, ay, ay," said RoS
Affair, who being n more demonStratiVt.
man than his friend. had been cropping in
the tail of his blacks" for the handker-
chief that was in his hat then forgetting
what he was searching for in the Interest
of the story. he walked for a considerable
distance with his hand deep in the pocket
of his tail coat
The farmer of Drumquhat proceeded
on his even way.
The lasSie that | took to be his wife
tbut | asked no quaStions) was awful diff
ferent ben the room wi him. frae what
she was wi me at the dOOr-heechin' like
wi him TO tax a sup o soup, an when |
gaed forrit to speak to him on the puir
hit bed, she cam by me an the water
was happin' off her cheeks like hail in a
simmer thunner shoo'er"
"Puir bit laSSockie." said Rob Adair.
who had three daughters of his own at
home, making another absent-minded and
unsuccessful search for his handkerchief
There's a smurr o rain beginnin' to ia
think. he said. ALPHABETICALLY
An you re Sandy MacWhurr frae
Drumquhat,' says the puir lad on the bed
Are your sugar plunS as guild as everT +"
Rob.
Deed We may say it. Weel. frae tina,
he gaed on talkin' aboot hoo Fred Robin
son and him stole the hale o the Drumqu-
hat pIooms vac back-end, an hoo they
CAT as far as the horse waterin place wi
them when the dowgs got efter them
He thriepit that it was me that set them
| Iii hot
confer him. They made for the seventh
march dyke, but hadna time to max over
1t, sac had to sit on the tap o thorn
bush in the meadow on their hunkerS.
WI the, dowgs. fair loupin an howlin
to get baud o them. till | came doom
myself an CARED them turn every pooeh
ootslde IN. He minded, too. that | was
for hingin them bath up by the heels
till what they had etten followed what
had been in their pooches. a this he
| said just as he did whan he wad haze
| coined over TO haze bar wi the lasSies
in the forenichts efter he cam hame frae
the college the first year: but lauchin' Il
the time i'll Il wey | liidna like, it wasna
naturai-something hard an frae the
teeth DOT. as yin might say. maiSt peeti-
ffu,, in a. Gallant like him wi the deid
lichts shinin' i'll the blue cen o him.
Dye no mind. Saunders. u him cont
IN hame frae the college wi a hantel o
medals an priZesE' said Rob Adair
breaking in as if he felt that he must
contribute his share TO the memories
which shortened if they did not tighten
their road. His father was rael prOod
o him. though it wasna his way to say
muckle; but his mither could talk ABBOTT
naethlng else, an carriet the medals
| ABBOTT wi her a over the parrish in her
wee black recktical basket. Fegs, a gip-
ssy wife. gat saxpence just for speerin'
for a SIGHT o them
''Wee1 - continued Saunders in,nart,,rb
ably continuing the thread of his nara
tive. Il let the lad rim on i this wey for
while. an then says /:
Waller, We dinna ask efter yer faith
err"
. No. l don't says he, vera short.
| Nell. gle me the draught.'
80 wi that the lassie gied her cen a
bit quick dab, an cam forrit, an pitten'
her arm ablow his held she gied him a
drink. Whatever it was, it quaitened
him. an he lay back tired like.
Weel, said L. after wee, Walter,
gin ven no speer for yer father, maybe
vel speer for yer ain mitherY
Walter An'ersOn turned his held TO
the wa
oh, my mither! my ain mithcr. he.
said
II saw young Walter just vince MAR
in life. | gaed to see him the neest
|
He was catchin' an twitchin' at the Gov
erlet. liftin' up his hand an lookin' al it
as though it was somebody else's. 1t
was a black Lunnon fog outside, an even
in the garnet it took him in his throat
till he couldna get breath.
He motioned for me TO get doom beside
him. There was nae chair. so ! cen CAT
doom on my knees. The lass stood white
and quaite ut the far side o the bed. He
turned his cen on me, blue an bonnie as
a bairn's. but wi a LIGHT in them that
telled he had eaten o the tree o knowl-
edge
= oh. Sandy he whispered. what a
mess I've made OF, haven't 1? You'll
see my mither when We gang back to
Deeside. Tell her it's no been so bad
as it has whites lookit Tell her I've a
loved her even at the warst-an. an my
father. too!' he said. with kind o sab.
Walter says /, III pit up prayer,
as I'm on my knees onywey.'
I'm no giftit like some: but. Robert.
! prayed for that laddie gaun afore his
Maker as | never prayed afore or since;
an | feenished vera short just as ordi-
mar, an fOrgie us a DOR sins, for Jesus
Chrst's sake. Amen
Amen said Walter An'erson.