Then each donned a clean print and a less fine kerchief and came forth to direct and aid the two cotter lasses who served at White Farm.

These by now had off their kirk things, but they marked Sunday still by keeping shoes and stockings.

Menie and Merran, Elspeth and Jenny, set the yesterday-prepared dinner cold upon the table, drew the ale, and placed chairs and stools.

Two men, Thomas and Willy, father and son, who drove the plow, sowed and reaped, for White Farm, came from the barn.

They were yet Sunday-clad, with very clean, shining faces.