For wi' the bang and the skirl the thing had clean disappeared.

The sun glintit, the wund blew, and there was the bare yaird whaur the Wonder had been lowping and flinging but ae second syne.
The hale way hame I roared and grat wi' the terror of that dispensation.
The grawn folk were nane sae muckle better; there was little said in Sandie's boat but just the name of God; and when we won in by the pier, the harbour rocks were fair black wi' the folk waitin' us.

It seems they had fund Lapraik in ane of his dwams, cawing the shuttle and smiling.

Ae lad they sent to hoist the flag, and the rest abode there in the wabster's house.

You may be sure they liked it little; but it was a means of grace to severals that stood there praying in to themsel's (for nane cared to pray out loud) and looking on thon awesome thing as it cawed the shuttle.