And what sport has your honour had the day? The birds grow wilder every year, now.
DUNGARREN.
Think you so, Anderson?
ANDERSON.
Trowth do I! There's something uncanny about them too. It's a fearfu' time we live in.
DUNGARREN.
I have done pretty well, however. Give this to the housekeeper to increase the stores of her larder. Unfastening the bag, and giving it toAnderson.)
ANDERSON.
By my faith! she'll be glad enough o' sick a supply; for Madam Annabell is come back again, wi' that Episcopal lassie frae the Isle o' Barra, that reads out o' a prayer book, and ca's hersell her Leddy's gentlewoman. Lord be mercifu' to us! the leddy 's bad enough, but Job himsell could hardly thole the gentlewoman.
DUNGARREN.
What has brought her back so soon? She was to have staid a week in Dumbartonshire.
ANDERSON.
That's more than I can say: but here comes Black Bawldy, wha was sent for to speak to her;
