CHAPTER III.

THE NIGHT-WATCHERS.

What first struck Margaret in Thrums was the smell of the caddis. The town smells of caddis no longer, but whiffs of it may be got even now as one passes the houses of the old, where the lay still swings at little windows like a great ghost pendulum. To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin. The little minister was trying to look severe and old, but twenty-one was in his eye.

"Look, mother, at that white house with the green roof. That is the manse."

The manse stands high, with a sharp eye on all the town. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it, and so the back of the Tenements is always better behaved than the front. It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other. (Gavin made short work of him.) To the right-minded the Auld Licht manse was as a family Bible, ever lying open before them, but Beattie spoke for more than him-self when he said, "Dagone that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me."

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. green
2. No
3. the back of the Tenements
4. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it
5. Beattie
6. Two
7. Jamie Don
8. Ferrets
9. Beattie
10. No
11. Yes
12. The right-minded
13. as a family Bible, ever lying open before them,
14. Yes
15. The caddis
16. Margaret
17. No
18. He likes it
19. colored nightcaps and corduroys
20. The little minister
1. What color is the top of the church?
2. Is it short?
3. Who behaves better?
4. Why?
5. Who killed himself?
6. How many attempts did it take?
7. Who never had a wife?
8. What pets did he keep?
9. Who felt the church was always staring at him?
10. Was he the only one?
11. Did someone else think differently about it?
12. Who?
13. Who did they see it?
14. Did the area have an odor?
15. Of what?
16. Who felt this way?
17. Did she think it was normal?
18. Does the narrator like the odor or dislike it?
19. What are the people who weave things wearing?
20. Who tried to look tough and elderly?