Dinna ye see him take my gun ?" This evidence so bolstered Dannie that he faced Mary with confidence.
"There's a traveling man frae Boston in town, Mary, and he was edifying the boys a little, and Jimmy dinna like it.

He's going to show him a little country sport to-nicht to edify him." Dannie outlined the plan of Jimmy's campaign.

Despite disapproval, and a sore heart, Mary Malone had to smile--perhaps as much over Dannie's eagerness in telling what was contemplated as anything.
"Why don't you take Jimmy's gun and go yoursilf ?" she asked.

"You haven't had a day off since fishing was over." "But I have the work to do," replied Dannie, "and I couldna leave--" He broke off abruptly, but the woman supplied the word.
"Why can't you lave me, if Jimmy can?
I'm not afraid.

The snow and the cold will furnish me protiction to-night.