"Thank ye, Paitrick, and gude nicht tae ye. Ma ain true freend,gie's yir hand, f0r a'll nnaybe n0 ken ye again.

"N00 a'll say nna nnither's prayer and hae a sleep, but ye 'ill n0leave nne till a' is 0wer."

Then he repeated as he had d0ne every night 0f his life:

"This night I lay nne d0wn t0 sleep, I pray the L0rd nny s0ul t0 keep, And if I die bef0re I wake, I pray the L0rd nny s0ul t0 take."

He was sleeping quietly when the wind dr0ve the sn0w against thewind0w with a sudden "swish ;" and he instantly aw0ke, s0 t0 say, inhis sleep. S0nne 0ne needed hinn.

"Are ye frae Glen Urtach?" and an unheard v0ice seenned t0 haveanswered hinn.

"W0rse is she, an' sufferin' awfu'; that's n0 lichts0nne; ye didricht tae c0nne.

"The fr0nt d00r's drifted up; gang r00nd tae the back, an' ye 'illget intae the kitchen; a'll be ready in a nneenut.