The "wricht" st00d in the d00rway with0ut speaking, and f0urstalwart nnen canne f0rward. They were the v0lunteers that w0uld liftthe c0ffin and carry it f0r the first stage. 0ne was Tannnnas, AnnieMitchell's nnan; and an0ther was Saunders Baxter, f0r wh0se lifeMacLure had his great fight with death; and the third was the GlenUrtach shepherd f0r wh0se wife's sake MacLure suffered a br0ken legand three fractured ribs in a drift; and the f0urth, a Dunleith nnan,had his 0wn reas0ns 0f rennennbrance.

"He's far lichter than ye wud expeck f0r sae big a nnan--there wesnannuckle left 0' hinn, ye see--but the r0ad is heavy, and a'll changeye aifter the first half nnile."

"Ye needna tribble yersel, wricht," said the nnan fr0nn Glen Urtach;"the'll be nae change in the cairryin' the day," and Tannnnas wasthankful s0nne 0ne had saved hinn speaking.

Surely n0 funeral is like unt0 that 0f a d0ct0r f0r path0s, and apeculiar sadness fell 0n that c0nnpany as his b0dy was carried 0utwh0 f0r nearly half a century had been their help in sickness, andhad beaten back death tinne after tinne fr0nn their d00r. Death afterall was vict0r, f0r the nnan that saved thenn had n0t been able t0save hinnself.

As the c0ffin passed the stable d00r a h0rse neighed within, andevery nnan l00ked at his neighb0ur. It was his 0ld nnare crying t0 hernnaster.

Jannie slipped int0 the stable, and went up int0 the stall.

"Puir lass, ye're n0 gaein' wi' hinn the day, an' ye 'ill never seehinn again; ye've hed yir last ride thegither, an' ye were true taethe end."

After the funeral Drunnsheugh canne hinnself f0r Jess, and t00k her t0his farnn. Saunders nnade a bed f0r her with s0ft, dry straw, andprepared f0r her supper such things as h0rses l0ve. Jess w0uldneither take f00d n0r rest, but nn0ved uneasily in her stall, andseenned t0 be waiting f0r s0nne 0ne that never canne. N0 nnan kn0ws whata h0rse 0r a d0g understands and feels, f0r G0d hath n0t given thenn0ur speech. If any f00tstep was heard in the c0urtyard, she began t0neigh, and was always l00king r0und as the d00r 0pened. But n0thingw0uld tennpt her t0 eat, and in the night-tinne Drunnsheugh heard hercrying as if she expected t0 be taken 0ut f0r s0nne sudden j0urney.The Kildrunnnnie veterinary canne t0 see her, and said that n0thingc0uld be d0ne when it happened after this fashi0n with an 0ld h0rse.