"You're bringing something that is not Christmas cheer!--Davie, tell Dandie Saunderson to saddle Black Alan at once .-- Now, Robin!" "Yesterday," said Greenlaw, "Elspeth Barrow vanished from White Farm.
They wanted to send Christmas fare to old Skene the cotter.

She said she would take a basket there, and so she went away, down the stream--about ten of the morning they think it was.

It was not for hours that they grew at all anxious.

She's never come back.

She did not go to Skene's.