said, "For getting a service or getting forward in the warld, he could somegate gar the wee pickle sense he had gang muckle farther than hers, though she could crack like ony minister o' them a'."
Accordingly he thus opened the conversation with young Morton,—
"A braw night this for the rye, your honour; the west park will be bearing bravely this e'en."
"I do not doubt it, Cuddie; but what can have brought your mother—this is your mother, is it not?" (Cuddie nodded.), "What can have brought your mother and you down the water so late?"
"Troth, stir, just what gars the auld wives trot—neshessity, stir—I'm seeking for service, stir."
"For service, Cuddie, and at this time of the year? how comes that?"
Mause could forbear no longer. Proud alike of her cause and her sufferings, she commenced with an affected humility of tone, "It has pleased Heaven, an' it like.
