The Eskdale Herd-boy: A Scottish Tale,for the Instruction and Amusement of Young PersonsCrosby,Nichols,and Company, 1854 |
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able afraid alarmed answered appearance Archie Kerr Armstrong arrived asked basket beautiful began better brother Captain Elliott Colly comfort continued cottage Craigie Hall daugh dear dear father dear John death delight desired door duty Edinburgh endeavour Eskdale eyes father feel fellow felt girl give glad gone grandmother hand happy Hawick hear heard heart herd-boy hills holm hope John Telfer John's Johnnie Armstrong Kelso kind Lamont Langholm Laurie leave live looking mamma mammy Manse Marion Scott Martin master measles Melrose mind minister Miss Helen Miss Maxwell morning mother Nelly never night obliged papa parents Peggy perfect stranger pony poor Marion promised Scotland sheep shepherd shew soon speak sure sweet child tell thing thought told Tom Little took Toulouse uncle wait walk wife William wish
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72 ページ - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
68 ページ - Tom was in such an ecstasy of delight, that it was with great difficulty he could be prevailed on to stay to eat some breakfast, though he owned he had come away before his porridge was ready. Helen, however, insisted on his going with her into the kitchen, and getting Nelly to supply his wants. Whilst he was eating, Helen inquired after his father. " He is a great deal better, Miss Helen, and begins now to walk about with the help of a stick. Only think how kind Will Oliver has been, and John Telfer,...
10 ページ - We'll ride and meet our lawful king, And bring him safe to Gilnockie. " Make kinnen ' and capon ready, then, And venison in great plentie ; We'll welcome here our royal king ; I hope he'll dine at Gilnockie...
10 ページ - And such like men of high degree; Of a gentleman I sing a song, Sometime called Laird of Gilnockie. The King he writes a loving letter, With his own hand so tenderly, And he hath sent it to Johnnie Armstrong, To come and speak with him speedily. The Elliotts and Armstrongs did convene, They were a gallant company; "We'll ride and meet our lawful king, And bring him safe to Gilnockie.
22 ページ - ... precisely the way in which the Bill Sykeses of real life are wont to acknowledge the fact. In another tale, an English one this time, a little girl named Helen rashly asks her father for some trifling information. He gives it with the usual grandiloquence, and then adds, by way of commendation : " Many children are so foolish as to be ashamed to let those they converse with discover that they do not comprehend everything that is said to them, by which means they often imbibe erroneous ideas,...
89 ページ - Her work in this world did indeed seem finished. The next day, without any apparent change for the worse, as her mother and Helen were sitting by the bed-side, and her kind anxious husband was supporting her in his arms, she laid her head on his shoulder and seemed to fall asleep: it was some minutes before he was aware that she was gone for ever. Thus perished one of the best and most exemplary of mothers, entirely from anxious solicitude about a son, who, in spite of all admonition and remonstrance,...
59 ページ - At present, they know the sheep, and will allow no harm to happen to them." Will now sent John home, as he himself was to remain till the other shepherd came to his relief. John reached the farm, when it was nearly dark, and having washed his face and hands, set out for the Manse. He found Mr. Martin waiting for him in the study. "Well, John, how do you like herding?" asked he, as his young scholar entered the room. "Very well, Sir; much better, indeed, than I expected: the shepherd has been very...
55 ページ - I have been telling him, Will," said Jeannie, "I was sure you would be kind to him, so that he had no need to be frightened. And indeed," continued she, in a sort of whisper, "who would not be kind to a poor orphan boy like him?" "Now my lad," said Will, "I must try what you are good for, and send you on your first errand. Go into the stable for me; it stands on the left hand as you go out, and at the back of the door you will see a coat hanging up; put your hand in to the pocket, and bring me a...
48 ページ - ... I shall then be pretty sure of rearing them, if I take care always to shut them up at night, to prevent the fox from getting at them. They are nasty, greedy, cruel creatures, these foxes, and mammy says, I cannot be too watchful to preserve my chickens from them ; for they are very cunning, and are always ready to seize the first opportunity of snapping up any thing that is left in their way." John agreed that all Tom said was quite true ; for he remembered, he had suffered himself from their...
22 ページ - I am glad, my dear," added he, " that you take care to ask about what you do not perfectly understand. Many children are so foolish as to be ashamed to let those they converse with discover that they do not comprehend...