"  I  am  glad  she  is  gane,  the  dour  carline,"  said
Mrs.  Baby,  "  though  she  has  left  that  piece  of  gowd
to  be  an  everlasting  shame  to  us."

"  Whisht,  mistress,  for  the  love  of  heaven ! "  said
Tronda  Dronsdaughter ;  "  wha  kens  where  she  may
be  this  moment  ?  —  we  are  no  sure  but  she  may
hear  us,  though  we  cannot  see  her."

Mistress  Baby  cast  a  startled  eye  around,  and
instantly  recovering  herself,  for  she  was  naturally
courageous  as  well  as  violent,  said,  "I  bade  her
aroint  before,  and  I  bid  her  aroint  again,  whether
she  sees  me  or  hears  me,  or  whether  she's  ower  the
cairn  and  awa.  —  And  you,  ye  silly  sumph,"  she  said
to  poor  Yellowley,  "what  do  ye  stand  glowering
there  for  ?  —  You  a  Saunt  Andrew's  student !  —  you
studied  lair  and  Latin  humanities,  as  ye  ca'  them,
and  daunted  wi'  the  clavers  of  an  auld  randie  wife  !

1  The  chapman's  drouth,  that  is,  the  pedlar's  thirst,  is  pro-
verhial  in  Scotland,  because  these  pedestrian  traders  were  in  the
use  of  modestly  asking  only  for  a  drink  of  water,  when,  in  fact,
they  were  desirous  of  food.
94  THE  PIRATE.
