A sair day they had of it; their hands was never aff the sheets, and it perishin' cauld--ower cauld to snaw; and aye they would get a bit nip o' wind, and awa' again, to pit the emp'y hope into them.

Eh, man! but they had a sair day for the last o't! He would have had a prood, prood heart that won ashore upon the back o' that.' 'And were all lost ?' I cried.

'God held them!' 'Wheesht!' he said sternly.

'Nane shall pray for the deid on my hearth- stane.' I disclaimed a Popish sense for my ejaculation; and he seemed to accept my disclaimer with unusual facility, and ran on once more upon what had evidently become a favourite subject.
'We fand her in Sandag Bay, Rorie an' me, and a' thae braws in the inside of her.

There's a kittle bit, ye see, about Sandag; whiles the sook rins strong for the Merry Men; an' whiles again, when the tide's makin' hard an' ye can hear the Roost blawin' at the far-end of Aros, there comes a back-spang of current straucht into Sandag Bay.