Said she, "I just dropped in to borrow a bit of tea going home, but if that's all ye have"-- Oh, but I could see her eyeing round; so I was too sharp for her, and I says, "Well, I've no more in the paper just now, but if ye'll wait till Donald comes, maybe he'll bring some." So she saw I was too sharp for her, and away she went.

If I'd as much as opened the tin, she'd have had every grain of good out of it with her eyes.' At first the student had had the grave and righteous intention of denouncing the superstition, but gradually he had perceived that to do so would be futile.

The artistic soul of him was caught by the curious recital.

He remembered now the bidding of Mary Torrance, and thought with pleasure that he would go back and repeat these strange stories to Miss Torrance, and smile at them in her company.
'Now, for instance,' he said aloud, 'if a good cow, that is a great pet in the family, should suddenly cease to give her milk, how would you set about curing her ?' The dame's small bright eyes grew keener.

She moved to her spinning-wheel and gave it a turn.