Evening star., 1902-03-01

at (the puir craitur has but three sermons,
ye ken); or if they want an especial treat,
let them wait till that heicat laddie, John
Glendonwyns, is ready to ta possession o.
the manse and waG his head in that double
dyed EraStian pulpit o the parish o Cover
II speak bitterly, ye say, and haze no
good reason? Come to my front door,
There over the tree taps on yon bonny brae-
face looking down on the white sails on the
SOlway saut water, ye can see the towers
O Castle Cover. Ye ken the race that
dwalls ther?
"The Glendonwyns say ye! RIGHT We are!
And ye maybeS ken my name? 'Glendnnin! {!
sac it is! Weel, in this press there's an
auld family Bible-a' that my grandfather
Gregory, peace to his lang-crumbled banes,
brocht away frae yOh proOd castle-the
hame in whilk he was born-aye, and his
fathers afore him for dozen generations
"Oh, it's a Weakened thing in a. the
countryside. Gregory Glendonwyn was his
name, even as 1t is that o the prood auld
reprobate wha dwells yonder at this day
and hour. He cam forth in anger, did my
grandfaither-forth frae the hoose that
might hae been his ain. I will work WI
my hands for wife and bairns, says he
confirming the same wi an OATH as was his
habit, but will no longer bear my fathers
name. nor touch penny that hath been
his! So said he, and so he did. He bred his
son, my father, to be joiner-himself be-
ing withoot settled trade, took naturally
to the school-mastering. And sac here in
the face of the mitchy, stand I, David
Glendinning; owning nae man farthin' and
or sma, for as muckle as soda scone or a
drink O. caller water!' ls.1I
1t was a true word that old GRAY Wolf
spake. All that could be said against it
was, that he spoke it somewhat too often.
On the day of his visit to the school, John
Glendonwyn took lunch with the rector
and his wife in the .tWo-storied, white
washed house adjoining the little academy
Mrs. Colstoun was handsome woman Of
forty-five to appearances little tired and
listless, but when once known full OF. the
sweetest and tenderest humors Her eve
naturally motherly, lighted with pleasure,
kind and compassionate, upon the lad. "As
good as orphaned" she called him to Mr.
Colst oun IF were left alone with that
curmudgeon Of a father, declare I would
shoot either myself or him." she would
say in her brisk, sudden way.
The children were In their places at ia BILE
from Grace, the pretty eldest girl, I to
Johnny. the late heroic Ounce of the infant
schoolroom, who sat regarding John Glen
donwyn with great round eyes.
You are to be in this part of the world
for some time. are you not, Mr.. Glendon-
wynn the lady of the house inquired gra-
ciously, shooting a glance at him out OF
her unfathomable dark eyes.
It'll about the middle OF the month";"
said john mildly unsuspicious.
John is coming to give me hand in
the school with the upper classical fellows
while 1 dress up the lower FORMS before
the presbyterial examination said her
husband, 'that young Martin Fraser does
his best, but 1t might be just humanely
possible to construct thing Of springs and
clockwork which would be of as much
real use!'
band in your holidays" said Mrs. Coistoun.
reaching out her hand to John, hand
which had done him many kindness in the
days when his father had sent him to