"Can you receive me, and those I have with me, for the night?
A spare corner, a shake-down, will do; we travellers in the bush are no wise nice." "The best we have, and kindly welcome; it is gude for saer een to see you, Jacob.

How many are ye in all ?" "There are just four, beside myself,--young people; I found them where they had been long living, on a lonely lake, and I persuaded them to come with me." The strong features of the Highlander worked convulsively, as he drew his faded blue bonnet over his eyes.

"Jacob, did ye ken that we lost our eldest bairns, some three summers since ?" he faltered, in a broken voice.
"The Lord, in his mercy, has restored them to you, Donald, by my hand," said the trapper.
"Let me see, let me see my children.

To him be the praise and the glory," ejaculated the pious father, raising his bonnet reverently from his head; "and holy and blessed be his name for ever.

I thought not to have seen this day.