Beef tea, and fruit, and jellies--rare gude things! Jamie, his een full o' tears, had aye his suspicions of the doctor.

But when he asked him, the doctor was said angry.
"Hamper?
What hamper ?" he asked gruffly.

That was when he was making a professional call.

"Ye're a sentimental fule, Jamie Lowden, and I'd hae no hand in helpin' ye! But if so be there was some beef extract in the hamper, 'tis so I'd hae ye mak' it--as I'm tellin' ye, mind, not as it says on the jar!" He said nowt of what had come aboot the day before.

But, just as he was aboot to go, he turned to Jamie.
"Oh, aye, Jamie, man, yell no haw been to the toon the day ?" he asked.
"I heard, as I was comin' up, that the strike was over and all the men were to go back to work the morn.