Tammas follows later, putting his head out at the door first, and looking cautiously about him to see if any one is in sight.

Pete is a U.P., and may be left to his fate, but the Auld Licht minister thinks that though it be hard work, Tammas is worth saving.
To the Auld Licht of the past there were three degrees of damnation--auld kirk, play-acting, chapel.

Chapel was the name always given to the English Church, of which I am too much an Auld Licht myself to care to write even now.

To belong to the chapel was, in Thrums, to be a Roman Catholic, and the boy who flung a clod of earth at the English minister--who called the Sabbath Sunday--or dropped a "divet" down his chimney was held to be in the right way.

The only pleasant story Thrums could tell of the chapel was that its steeple once fell.