RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.

neither did Rab, who presided behind the
cart.

I stood till they passed through the long
shadow of the College and turned up
Nicolson Street. JI heard the solitary cart
sound through the streets and die away
and come again ; and IJ returned thinking
of that company going up Libberton Brae,
then along Roslin Muir, the morning light
touching the Pentlands and making them
like on-looking ghosts, then down the
hill through Auchindinny woods, past
“haunted Woodhouselee ;” and as day-
break came sweeping up the bleak Lam-
mermuirs and fell on his own door, the
company would stop, and James would
take the key and lift Ailie up again, laying
her on her own bed, and, having put Jess
up, would return with Rab and shut the
door.

, James buried his wife, with his neigh-
bors mourning, Rab inspecting the solem-

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