Donal Grant

for the third time if his box was come. The landlord said, if

be the name upo

" said the landlord.

he passed the door of a room where some of th

lf not at liberty to talk about the family in which his granddaughter was a servant. But what was said in public he

ry, having a tumbler of whisky-toddy together after the market. One of them was a stranger who had be

resent. He wud sit doon as ready as no-that wud he-wi' ony puir body like mysel', an' gie him his cracks, an' hear his

ey say he was but some far awa' cousin!" rem

her dee'd, an' they war freen's as weel 's brithers. They say 'at the lady Arctoora-h'ard ye ever sic a hathenish name for a lass!-is b'un' to merry the yoong lord. There 's a sicht o' clapper-clash a

riptur 'at the sins o' the fathers is veesitit upo' the chi

n unshaven beard, and a certain general disregard to appearances, "wha can tell bu

ing wad be fair," said a fifth:

joined the former. "It gangs its ain gait, an' mortal ca

e feared argument, lest he should fail and wrong the right, but he

nger put in a word

e! We setna up for

pier a questio

I winna insure," s

tell me what ye ca'

ists i' the punishment o' sin. He gi

n unco ae-sidit def

t wad ye m

he justice o' God lies i' this, 'at he gi

ord; an' the word says he veesits the ineequities o' the fathers upo' the child

at ye dinna un'erstan'; ye may wauk

I'm no sayin' he disna du richt; I'm onl

be richt an'

I no say I dinna see 't? Isna t

erable, and Don

t's conteened i' the veesitin' o' the sins o' the fathers u

eneuch!" confessed

i' nowt an' sheep, whan a heap o' things gaed throuw my heid; an' I hae seen something as weel, though no that m

seemed to indica

o' drink, cam upo' the perris, or wad hae hungert but for some 'at kenned him whan he was yet in hon

doobt

hem, they were a' like eneuch to

I dau

ility gien they had come intil a lo

t hae gane the s

here favour i' that veesitation o'

of rich. So entirely was the subject dropped that Donal feared he had failed to make himself understood. He did not know the general objection to talking of things on eter

hest home, and unpacking it in the archway