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A
WORTHY
Highlander, who acquired his slender stock of mongrel
English on the "Braes o’ Balquidder," and who owned a property in the
Calton, had the mortification to find that a female tenant of his, a
cowfeeder, had sold off all the stock and made a moonlight flitting, in
order to evade that special palladium of landlord privilege, the law of
hypothec.
The landlord, hearing of his
tenant’s decampment, hastened to the spot to see if anything had been left
whereby he might indemnify himself, but behold! all the rowters were off
and the byre cleaned out. Just as he was preparing to leave the premises,
one of the cows, through absence of memory or force of habit, made her
appearance at the byre door, and claimed admittance, to the delight of
the
bereaved landlord, who welcomed her in these kindly
terms:
"Hawkie, my own latie, come awa’,
I’m ferry glad to saw you once more; you’re a far more honester woman than
your mistress." |
