Wingham Times, 1891-07-24, Page 6bc, pound and shilling by shilling till tbe eels from the Geordie. waited
(( ()LIM c5 stint amounted to the fleet six nionthe. and 'rooked at Tammy eiguiticaertly,
wages. Then Tammy stopped and tied No anither peony, Geordie, he reiter.
up the leather pouch Geordie stood I ated, tviug ap hi* pouch, ean
IRIDAI. JULY 24, 1851.
Tho Fireman:5 story.
Oh. eeet. I've rescued t,everid folks,
And risked my own life, too;
You knew that's part of the reguler work
A firma* has to do,
XU e not a giant, as you mei see ;
And yet, at a fire, when
It.comes to carrying people out,
. hay° the t,trength of ten.
E,zeitemeut 7 Yes, although, somehow
I never seem to. care
"What accidents I meet with while
There's dauger in the air.
I felt a Wide sutra. and weak
When Brown, the other day,
nelpecl
no to 'take two babies from
That house in Aveaue A.
We got as far as the second door,
And found. the stars on firs •
Between. us and the landing, where
A girl stood, ono floor higher,
."She Wttri only tiny little thing, 4
still with his baud otttstretelled, look
-
lug sieuilleantiv tit his master.
Eli, it's. no eiteuch IWO! Tatum,/
said, drawling out his pouell again and Tammy shoaled hen to thP parloor
colormg. He hardly expected Geordie feeling as inema. 1 hope, as be truly
t� know when he was °heated, and was,
blushed to find himself caught a Next day, to, Tantany's intaloyho iutctanetev
,o get ;mother man, Geordie
,Dounat, after bedding the hordes, hati•
left that night., and get- ,job the
'quarries ; and Taieray'e chagrin seas.
real, Bell and her mother made no
secret of their joy, and insisted on,
whora;
Tammy was dtsgusted. luta not Wel; choosing the tweet meta
made so good a bargain with Geordie coneequently„ h* did not see till he
as be had expected, and 'Bell and her came home. A: brew clueld to 100,le
mother-eat:11d Bell — were doubly at iE he's hale aa glide's, he's bonny,
angry that a salt shield like Geordie bell do, But he promisee, weel ; he's
Should have kept his own with TamraY a grand hand, aktheepune t so ra many
• • thought, aa he saw with what expeilia
stand there till morn, gin eia• ; hat
gin ye are it.o plesuccl, get ya anithor
au' get mother man I aud
Mean salon, He put another slilling
into his tnan's haud. Geordie looked
and nodded. Another was put
in, tau another and another, He put
them into his pocket aud said indige
nantly, warrant i
4
tilaiwaveeallY at:atefuli tulele tumult I the. evenings, whew her father and
it when she coed, We were aye cow. mother were in Georklieii. arm would
Portable wi''' you, an' we'll try and steal.around Bell's west,. or his Lend
make you, um f ortahle evi' as. woeld reek° prisoneo 0 hers. and
fr.3o Geordie came back ageln, and Om. they sat in mute happiness in
Tammy coelicled to herureein ye want the liglie; of a sputtering fir -knot.
to keep on the saft eid e oe Belt; dinnit When the father and mother wore out
look in at the byreeclieor when. she's the two sat apart in. silence. It was
milking, an'. gin ye meet her Get aboot , only whoa alley
were in thet Geordie 4,
tali'. nee notice 0' her,. for• ehe's• a
Priciefir toad;
lell• warrant, Geordie. said,
Geordie bad profited by. past taper,
ierineeso Belksaw little of. him, Bat
elm onus changed—had grown gracious
,to him, aud, even though he ha look -
.ed. in at the "ayreedooreartasioratily at
• .aiming.timoi, she would not have been
eery:awry. Only he never did.. Every
time she oartied her bundles Alm the
carrier's sheanade up her mincl,that if
• she met himoehe would really ask him
to give her a lift home with. them. But
she never met him. 13elesigheer • What say yo to that, Bell?
A.bout the age of three, Joss They were loud ni t
leut she lepked at Os and the hungry flames
dared. take liberty witaiDell,
They had been ^sitting an toe
gethe.r one evening, when Geordie start.
led three, persons in the hot -weber .a
loud explosion of inapa,thuace. This is
thio heialre o' perfit nonseneh; it's like
wain' a. yeukie chin-;; the mair ye
scart„ the inair wad.; 'evert. t'ne
game to he mairried sirse:; an' that
sune 1 •
Maurice, Geordie? exele,imea. Tam-
my,. waiting up out of•adoze. Wha
are you thinliin' o'mlrnyi& 1'
oil, lisle, here ?
At the close of harvest both *ere She blushed, hesitated; avid not more
zu away that staggered ine. , for his dismiesal. But Tammy kuew tion the porridge dieappeered,
invited to a. barvest home, and •Bell than above her breath mine I suppose
• lint." 1 shoutee. "stand cm the stairs 1 what he was about. For holding a The new ma,a bad. not. been three
ril toss her down to you." days on the farm, betore. Tammy leas never lookeeeforward with; such in-'
And managed tb struggle through. ling a horse or cow, or kno-wing their grumbling., He's, deter ot gift, hit petience to.a feast.. With, m,ainy more I'll warrant 1 Geprclie exclaimed, as
maidens she watched the. g.allauts as
plough- or building stack, for judg-
' The child ran hack to an opou door, ailments, where would you find tile alane meat aud wages. The very first oeuehuaeto say, I should think so, in-
' I made a rush up into the Are,
" Beckoned to me andsaid Morniner the household was astir and they canteen with their blue. bonnets deed, and, he bolted out of the house
--
Nm 'ise way, man1 My buzzer Bob and great red tasi...els.;, and Bellis and hounded like a doer down the lea.
1 found her baby brother awake, his work well done, as though you •, made hie appearaace. He Was .am heart thumped when one blue bonnet he Was, ploughing. Ile eeme back
like. Then he could be trusted with
Is seepin, were in 'is bed." everything, •aud you were sure to get the porridgeready before the 1:Lowman
And just beginning,to cry with a tremendous tassel; made its ap- ;whistling, no feeling.. better already.'
el wrapped, them both in a heavy quilt p. (wawa.% with Geordie Damao under. So they were married. It's the only
trotted al, his heels all day long. hour late before he got to the plough,
In half the wink of au eyo ; That comes o' his bein' saft, ye see ;lbutle made up for it in the evening
:cure, heconfided aitriend; but,man.
And then; at the end of a twisted sheet, but hand your tongue, Bell ; ye may hu being early home. His morning
I quickly lowered them down 70king being a bort one, he ceoly told
get. Geordie for 4 man yet, her father
Belonging to ,Timmy Brown, . said to provoke her. \•Tamney equal-aqualled it by taking
Into a pair of trusty arms
I hope to die if 1 didn't flop
; Him for a man! she retorted eon-iall the longer a rept at mid-day. And
.Right down on that smoking rather marry a be
the rea.ster hinted that he would
' As I never was helped before. • John Ohieemau. be better pleased with •lees whistling
and more red land, his servant, equal
And thank the Lord for helping me temptuously. I wad
SOOTCH V.EADING. j to the oceasion'; told him thee he did
The next six months were a sharp
.six months to Geordie. Bell and her the whistling, but thi1. his heavyeheel.
neath it. Bell knew it. wee. charming,
—thelargest in the barn. Had it
been the smallest it would liave been;
delicioas to her. audit been medium.
ee would have beeri perfection, because
it would have been leeither large or
small. It was all it could be, provided
Geordie were under it. She blushed,
inlet almost put to shame the bundles
• lof poppies she had in her. breast and
hair. When she put them . she
hine ; he was match, When1done. Tammy was frantic, but Bell
OZORDIE DONNAT'S eouirrsniP. =other did what tbir they could to annoy led owsee cotild du no more, they were
thought of Geordle, she would lave
Ay, Tammy, an' so ye haw gotten they sat down to their supper of Pc'r" land her mother would hear nothine
Geordie Demist this sax months. He's ridge and milla-eand: the four at onelaeainst. bile—he was a bracv 1k; been a happy woman if Geordie had
isa ?
t ble eccordine: to the custom of the th'e
y too, changed their tune ie time
• net with that enormous tassel..
thought ot her when be chose tbe bon.
e 110 The speaker was the Roysten ear, tirae_Georelie's milk was blaised.. He
grurubled • about 1iis food. The
unco dear,
rier, who -was pulling down e.heavy said nothing, but left the milk, and
; sowens were either sour or ill-seyed ;
k tom .the 1-nn'of his °art f°1 Bell's tongue was ready. What ails and whon theywere to les
taste there
Tammy Joss, who owned aud farmed ye at the milk 'I Thin ist and auld
were two few of them. To crown a
1
i a piece of land anile aud a half from Sal, my lad; ye werena sae luckysoice he was intpudent to Bell and het.
. he was always at the other end of the,
it's a peefit alio, and he was not ree
fleeting on the wedded state.
Art ba love, readeire Then get thee,
married, if that maze ye not, nothing;
will.
Never, before had Bell seen Geordie
look half as well, and among all the
lads none could dance.like him ; only
the Oraime. 'when ye care' ' here; but ye haw been 1 • •
',pother. Bell hinted that the cows tr°°m•• He might have tome to speak
'
Francke I . thanks—Geordie said nothing, but yerieleBell, till ver bairns could barely be civil to some young
What gars you think him 'deaf, owereel Sairecl an' noo• that's our 1 • ••1 ab anyrate. She was • annoyed, and
were ill -kept, but she was. told—Sair
remollstrat. men who hovered around, attracted
le - , next day he at doWn in Bell's chair;
!aee • and 'When Atild Bell
Daft 1 Gin be is, it's en mace wise Geordie's,- place to a bowl of milk— 1
1 8ervant to her mind. Bat he put - the the table. 'When twelve o'clock drew
kind o' a daftness ; it wad be tellin'. ,
which she left too. He had no more cap on his other misdeeds when 'he near she was anxious to get home, and
half the .0ruisie if they had some o't.
occasion to -complain of, her .milk, I drove the prone of the eruip into the' creanee her neck to catch a glimpse of
.'' He Luna Muck le to say, .but he has a
His next conflict With Bell' was at foot of the twal.pint hawkiteand lamed. him, then she went off in search, and
grand pair o' hands. The warld ould
the Teuchet's Nest, where the Royston her and put her off her milk for six at last had to ask if anybodyliad seen
hiro, when she was told he had gone
• •-carrier bad stopped his cart; There ; weeks, Only Tammy expressed his
. ., So saying,. Tammy' Joss took his bas-. . 1 • . of home an hour ago. It was a wretched
eesily do wi' iess gab and mair pith. • ,.
were parcels for Bell more balky than ' dissatisfaction ; but t iere was none
ket and moved hoineward,not too. well harvest -home to Bell.
pleased at hearing his mare decried.h. .
by the time she should carry theta the three who would not have wel- ,
mimed Geordie Donnet back again. Life venton as usual, till otte day
• heevy,but. more than heavy enough
If Tammy was it
• !eased with 18 home. Geordie:without any thought, Tammy even put 'himself in the Geordie was sent to the barn; where
man, So was not his daughter Bell. Bell was winnowing eorri, to tell her
• except of being of service, took the way to meet Geordie, and gave him
‚inc neighbors teased . her about dinner was ready, and after this all
heaviest basket aver llif3 arm, and ten shillings with an apology for
Geordie Donnat for a sweetlitaxt, and •
te ye see! wi' hie mouth open. But he is just ite Tarn.ny began to ask a blessing; ' •
, ed lie laughingly told her to do theihY her poppies and red cheeks. At
O;,the way he has o' catchire what
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• supper too lee eves at tee other end of
no a thoottie daft! and when she appeared she sat down in work her'self, abd see. would have, et
She stretched herself up
site knew he had theereputation of be. pick up her cheating him ; and he whispered-- went wrong,
to her full height to rest -herself.
stood till Bell should
ing sett. Sue knew better, but then Ilan, Geordie, will ye come beak 1
other effects and accompany him
home. She looked at him, en angry . standing with her back to the door.
he looked saft, aud that was worse. Geordie shook his head.
'When he looked in their flashed upon
Like a true daughter of Eve,ehe could
said in the, presence of the crowd Na, I'll warrant 1 he muttered.
him the beauty of Bell'e straight,
flush spread over her face, and she
IliVe toierated Inni had he been saft, Tammy soon again took occasion to
graceftil figure, and the riCh brown
gathered around, the carrier's cart :' ...
etitleout looking it.met his old servant. ,
awl& hair, plaited coil upon coil, was
13ell'efiret itelltilintatiOn with him Many Geordie, we ere in an '
like a shield to her shapely. head. Ile
Lay doon that basket; d'ye think 111
was not favorable. She had beenfix up -bye ; ye'll need to come back ;
could not speak, but gazed, and she
disgrace mysel' •by gain' ham; Wt' the
milking the cows, old singing only as ' - youye hat: ae friend oily way.
knew he was there but dared tot move.
like 0,you 1 Mind, though are
a milli Maid eke, Wasik she was start- ,• - But Geordie shook' his head,
At last he sighed, 'and she' heard that
..
, daft, I m no,
Geordie sheepishly set down the Ile met him at the kirk -stile Sunday tied by a voiee muttering, I'll 'arrant;
basket, and pell lifting it up walked after Sunday, and told him, Name sigh'. .
i and, turning round, she saw Geordie
Facts About Yourself.
The average number of- teeth is
thirty- two.
The weight of the circulating blood
is 29 pounds.
The average weight of an adult is
150 pounds and six ounces.
The brain of a man exceed twice
that of any other animal.
A man breathes aboat twenty times:
a minute, and 1,200 times an hour.
A man breathes about 18 pints of
air in a minnte, or upwards of 7 hogs-
heads a day.
The average weight of the brain of
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pounds and 11 ounces.
Five hundred and forty pounds, or
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The average height of an English-
man is 5 feet, 9 inches; of a French.
man, 5 feet, 4 inches; of a Belgian, 5
feett 6i inches.
The heart sends nearly ten founds
of blood through•tem veins and arteries
each beat, end nukes four beats while
We breath; one°.
01.e hundred and seventyefive niT
moving aivay from the hyreedoote She iindignantly home. Be stood for a
was nettled, jest because it was saft
Geordie.
Geuraie'll mak' a grand man to ye
some day, 13e11, her father said to her,
'Ocularly, when she called him a lout,
arid I,mdly insisted on getting rid of
Though he aside me the morn
wactna,liae him, silo said eeornfully.
mebbe na ask ye, her father
newered,
warrant, Some one exelaimed,
d there *ea the pubjeet in question
ging behind them. Tammy laugh%
aucl Bell banged thA kitchen door
er her.
When Georaie began his second eix
the %with Tammy nothing had been
me mite wettest, mad the master
iree gold b irgain with the
*a he could ; so when tittle nf
at arrived hi paid ont pound by
Bell, dinner, he said, and he was
your ain wages, and try me; but
Geordie returned, Na, I'll warrant. gone,
Even Bell Met him. She looked When Bell sat down to dinner she
was radiartt. 'She gave one glance at
her sweetest aud bloshe'd Out no won.
after that not another
der after what had passed) when she Geordie, and
said, yell come back, Geordie. He spoonfal of broth could he get down,
shelili his head. Nly neither an' melt
Mak' ye as comfortable tot we can, she
pleeded.
Moment or two among the crowd with
his hands buried deepen his •pockets.
She's a sharp ane that, Geordie, the
carrier said, with a pitying smile.
I'll warrant I lie eeelaimed, and
turned away', Ilad Bell noticed she
would have seen two red spots tremble
in his cheeks for a moment ; but she
would not have dated had
seen
Next day Tammy paid his servant,
arid once more that servant's livid wit
extended. No ae peony nutii,Geordie
said Tammy, tartly. Be had 'algae up
his mind that Geordie was net get
the totter of him again ; and be had
been fortified in this resolution by
Bell's eompIaints, the chief of which
Were that Geordie bad dared to look
in at the byre -door when Dill was
milking the maws, and bad actually
offered to help her home wall her par
Na, be said,
'Ye niieht, Geordie; I want ye, Will
ye no come (or my sake
Geordie looked eteitight at Bell till
she blushed !Wit,. Then he said—
think ; gin ye but -the same
story again, Imlay SO' I ettayna,
Bell saw Geordie the Sunday f'4
Towieg, end asked, Will ye wine,
Geordie 1
])o ye want me In' asked, pointed -
ly.
There was something wrong with him;
but what he did not know', althongh lions cells in the lungs, which would
the symptoms were decided. Be stop. cover a surface thirty -times greater
ped whistling, ha sighed often, and alai than the human bady,
unexpeeted „beeting with 130.1 took The average of the pblse in infancy
hie breath away lis 120 per inim
oute ; in anhood, 80;
td. He forgotint sixty Yeats, W' The pulse Ws Belli tnutere
he Tairielyis warologiand good and gaged female is more frequent than that of
in at° the gyro door when Bell WilBIl
milking the tows ; be good right in
the doorway darkening all the place,
and 13611 never eomplained, even
met her wilt her parcelion Vriday,
ade wonld hose covered' himself with
them ; mid the heavier he wee laden
do tli, Hee emphatieally. I the happier he felt, and would inin
Ti1011 1'11 come4
• have carried Bell home trio, Then in
nide&
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