Before the visit was over, wee Davie would be playing with the dangles of his pipes, and laying his ear to the bag out of which he thought the music came ready-made.

And Willie was particularly fond of Davie, and tried to make himself agreeable to him after a hundred grotesque fashions.

The awe, however, was constantly renewed in his absence, partly by the threats of the Kelpie, that, if so and so, she would give this one or that to Foolish Willie to take away with him--a threat which now fell almost powerless upon me, but still told upon Allister and Davie.
One day, in early summer--it was after I had begun to go to school--I came home as usual at five o'clock, to find the manse in great commotion.

Wee Davie had disappeared.

They were looking for him everywhere without avail.