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"And the ti o' you"

"Maggie, when the Fife girls give their promise, what do they bind it

with?"

"They break a sixpence wi' the lad they love, and they each keep a half o'

it"

He took a sixpence from his pocket and broke it silently in two He had

prepared it for the cereirl stood with her eyes fixed on his white, handsome, resolute face, as

he accomplished the rite Then he lifted one half, and said: "This is yours, Maggie Promoter With this silver token, I bind you

mine, until death parts us"

"And this is yours, Allan Campbell Wi' this siller token, I bind you

mine, until death parts us"

Handfast they stood with the broken silver in their pal the sacred promise in each other's face Allan's heart was

too full for words; Maggie, trenificance of the promise Yet she was the first to speak-"I'll be true to you, Allan, true as the sun to the dawn, true as the moon

to the tide Whene'er you co"

He took her by the hand, and they walked up and down the house place