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"It's as I say," said the herd of the Redswirebead "I'raund owercome for the world is just 'Pay no attention' Ye'll has heard how the word calen notice to quit by the laird, and a' the countryside was vexed to pairt wi' Jock, for he was a popular character But about a year after a friend meets him at Gledsmuir merkit as crouse as ever 'Lodsake, Jock, man, I thocht ye were awa',' says he 'No,' says Jock, 'no I'e it?' he asked 'Fine,' says Jock 'They sent ; but I just payed no attention Syne they sent me a blue letter frae the lawyer's, but I payed no attention Syne the factor cam' to see me' 'Ay, and what did ye do then, Jock?' says he 'Oh, I payed no attention Syne the laird carain,' said Jock, verra calhed, but the rest of the audience suffered no change of feature The gloa bad darkened, and the little small-paned as a fretted sheet of dark and lucent blue Grateful odours of food and drink and tobacco hung in the air, though tar and hoht stoutly for theof a fox-hunt, when he lay on the hill for the night and shot five of the destroyers of his flock before the n--and the hour--for stories of many kinds--tales of weather and adventure, humorous lowland escapades and diser still, there would colen, told shamefully yet with the realis far above fiction Lewis listened entranced, ain by a question

The herd of Farawa told of the sal of the Aller salmon, am to the head of Aller and then crossed the spit of land to the head of Callowa toof the Callowa fish It was a humorous story, and was capped there and then by his cousin of the Dreichill, who told a ghastly tale of a murder in the wilds Then a lonely lorified his powers on a January night when he swung hi quivered beneath hihs