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The Gaberlunzie's Wallet [signed Jot]. People's Ed
The Gaberlunzie's Wallet People's Ed - signed Jot Author:James Ballantine General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Bloom on, sweet babe ! Time steals away; The langest life is but a day; An' gin thy father, doom'd to gae, Leaves her alane, Wilt thou thy mither's love repay Wi' love again ? " Well," said the Gaberlunzie, clapping the child on the head, after having perused this poem; " well, my little love, I trust you will be spared (here a tear glistened on his cheek, which he wiped unseen away) to fulfil your worthy father's wishes and predictions." " Ay, sir," said the girl, " and to follow his example ; that, my mother says, was far better." , " Do you recollect your father?" inquired the Gaberlunzie. " Ay," she replied, " I mind o' him weel, when he used to come in frae his wark, and tak me on his knee, and learn me my hymns, and psalms, and sangs. He was a millwright, and wrought at the mills o' the Water o' Leith, and we lived in a bonnie wee housie doun by the water side, wi' a yard afore the door, an' keepit hens and ducks; and I had a wee pet lammie, and my faither put up a bonnie green pailing afore the door, and a wooden bench facin' the sun for my grannie, puir body; and his greatest joy was to see her sittin' beakin' hersel' in the sun, or doddling me on her knee. It was unco cruel, I aye think, o' the laird to turn us out o' that bonnie housie after my faither died, and force us to come into this muckle black toun to stay, whaur we ne'er get a blink o' the clear water an' the green yird. But my mither says it was but just the man should hae his ain, and when we couldna pay the rent o't we had nae right to stay in't." The Gaberlunzie felt his throat swelling with indignation at the hard...« less