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following communication : Enter little Highland 

 waiting-maid. " If you please, sir, it was Angus 

 ]\IacHowdie was here. He was wanting to know, 

 sin' Johnnie is sae sair hurt, if you'll be ha'eing 

 him for the river to-morrow?" 



Afterwards, the rain having ceased, and the night 

 being fine though dark, we light a pipe, and strolling 

 down to the bridge, the scene of so much woe, stand 

 looking down into the cruel current. Presently we 

 are aware that we are not alone that some one else 

 is also contemplating it, and by the length of his legs 

 it can be none other than Johnnie. We go up to 

 him, and we think we are not sure but we think 

 that there is a tear in one of his eyes. " "Well, 

 Johnnie, what are you thinking of 1" Xo answer. 

 We go a little closer. It is a tear. " Holloa, 

 Johnnie ! what are you thinking of 1 " 



" I'm thinking that we didna do sae muckle 

 after a'." 



