What did you want to say to me ?" He was so bewildered, the rough shepherd, who had spent all his life on the hill-sides, and never seen or imagined so sad a sight as this, that at first he could not find a word.

Then he said, hanging back and speaking confusedly and humbly, "I ask your pardon, my lord--I dina ken--I'll no trouble ye the day." "But you do not trouble me at all.

Mr.Menteith is not here yet, and I know nothing about business; still, if you wished to speak to me, do so; I am Lord Cairnforth." "Are ye ?" said the shepherd, evidently bewildered still, so that he forgot his natural awe for his feudal superior.

"Are ye the countess's bairn, that's just the age o' our Dougal?
Dougal's ane o' the gamekeepers, ye ken--sic a braw fellow--sax feet three.

Ye'll hae seen him, Maybe ?" "No, but I should like to see him.