R A B 



(FROM "OUR DOGS") 



OF Rab I have little to say, indeed have little 

 right to speak of him as one of " our dogs " ; 

 but nobody will be sorry to hear anything of 

 that noble fellow. Ailie, the day or two after 

 the operation, when she was well and cheery, 

 spoke about him, and said she would tell me 

 fine stories when I came out, as I promised 

 to do, to see her at Howgate. I asked her 

 how James came to get him. She told me 

 that one day she saw James coming down 

 from Leadburn with the cart ; he had been 

 away west, getting eggs and butter, cheese 

 and hens, for Edinburgh. She saw he was 

 in some trouble, and on looking, there was 

 what she thought a young calf being dragged, 

 or, as she called it, " haurled," at the back of 

 the cart. James was in front, and when he 

 came up, very warm and very angry, she saw 

 that there was a huge young dog tied to the 

 cart, struggling and pulling back with all his 



