"Whaever's to preach the morn is to bide at the manse, for the minister's servant's been at Baker Duft's buyin' short-bread--half a lippy, nae doot." "Are ye sure o' that, Leeby ?" "Oh, am certain.

The servant gaed in to Duffs the noo, an', as ye ken fine, the manse fowk doesna deal wi' him, except they're wantin' short-bread.

He's Auld Kirk." Leeby returned to the kitchen, and Jess sat for a time ruminating.
"The lad Wilkie," she said at last, triumphantly, "'ll be to bide at Lawyer Ogilvy's; but he'll be gaen to the manse the morn for a tea-dinner." "But what," asked Leeby, "aboot the milk an' the cream for the lawyer's ?" "Ou, they'll be hae'n a puddin' for the supper the nicht.

That's a michty genteel thing, I've heard." It turned out that Jess was right in every particular..