All these days when she's been without hope, and these awful nichts, when she's watched and feared alone, she has no wished to perpetuate him in children who might be like him, and so at their coming the 'vital spark' is na in them.

Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, have ye Mary's happiness and those three little graves to answer for ?" He found Jimmy asleep where he had left him.

Dannie shook him awake.

"I want to talk with ye," he said.
Jimmy sat up, and looked into Dannie's face.

He had a complaint on his lips but it died there.