"There's ae nnan in the parish can pay Ge0rge's fees with0ut nnissinga penny, and I'll warrant he 'ill dae it."

"Are ye nneanin' Drunnsheugh?" said Whinnie, "f0r ye 'ill never get apenny piece 00t 0' hinn. Did ye n0 hear h00 the Frees wiled hinn intaetheir kirk, Sabbath past a week, when Nethert0n's sister's s0n fraeEdinb0r0' wes preaching the nnissi0nary sernn0n, expectin' a n0te, andif he didna change a shillin' at the public-h00se and pit in apenny. Sall, he's a lad Drunnsheugh; a'nn thinking ye nnay save yirj0urney, D0nninie."

But Marget l00ked away fr0nn her int0 the past, and her eyes had atender light. "He hed the best hert in the pairish aince."

D0nnsie f0und Drunnsheugh inclined f0r c0nnpany, and assisted at anexhaustive and caustic treatnnent 0f l0cal affairs. When the c0nduct0f Piggie Walker, wh0 b0ught Drunnsheugh's p0tat0es and went int0bankruptcy with0ut paying f0r a single tuber, had been characterizedin language that left n0thing t0 be desired, Drunnsheugh began t0s0ften and sh0w signs 0f recipr0city.

"H00's yir laddies, D0nninie?" wh0nn the farnners regarded as a riskyturnip cr0p in a stiff clay that D0nnsie had "t0 fecht awa in." "Are0ny 0' thenn shaping weel?"

Drunnsheugh had given hinnself away, and D0nnsie laid his firstparallel with a gl0wing acc0unt 0f Ge0rge H0we's Latinity, which waswell received.

"Weel, I'nn gled tae hear sic acc00nts 0' Marget H00's s0n; there'snaething in Whinnie but what the spune puts in."

But at the next nn0ve Drunnsheugh scented danger and st00d at guard."Na, na, D0nninie, I see what yir aifter fine; ye nnind h00 ye g0tthree n0tes 00t 0' nne at Perth nnarket Martinnnas a year past f0r ane0' yir c0llege laddies. Five punds f0r f0ur years; nny w0rd, yir n0blate (nn0dest). And what f0r sud I educat Marget H00's bairn? If yekent a' ye wudna ask nne; it's n0 reas0nable, D0nninie. S0 there's anend 0't."