Turkey left him crying in the middle of the bog.

He said it was a pitiful sight.
It was long before Willie appeared in that part of the country again; but, about six months after, some neighbours who had been to a fair twenty miles off, told my father that they had seen him looking much as usual, and playing his pipes with more energy than ever.

This was a great relief to my father, who could not bear the idea of the poor fellow's loneliness without his pipes, and had wanted very much to get them repaired for him.

But ever after my father showed a great regard for Turkey.

I heard him say once that, if he had had the chance, Turkey would have made a great general.