But Cosmo said, "Bide a wee, Aggie, an' we'll gang hame thegither.

I'll be better in twa or three minutes." But he did not get better so fast as he expected, and the only condition on which Grannie would consent not to send for the doctor, was, that Agnes should go and tell his father.
"But eh, Aggie!" said Cosmo, "dinna lat him think there's onything to be fleyt aboot.

It's naething but a gey knap o' the heid; an' I'm sure the maister didna inten' duin me ony sarious hurt .-- But my father's sure to gie him fair play!--he gies a' body fair play." Agnes set out, and Cosmo fell asleep.
He slept a long time, and woke better.

She hurried to Glenwarlock, and in the yard found the laird.
"Weel, lassie!" he said, "what brings ye here this time o' day?
What for are ye no at the school?
Ye'll hae little eneuch o' 't by an' by, whan the hairst 's come." "It's the yoong laird!" said Aggie, and stopped.
"What's come till 'im ?" asked the laird, in the sharpened tone of anxiety.
"It's no muckle, he says himsel'.

But his heid's some sair yet." "What maks his heid sair?
He was weel eneuch whan he gaed this mornin'." "The maister knockit 'im doon." The laird started as if one had struck him in the face.