250 THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE.

 

and when the womenfolk come back frae the
wood, they’ll hae other thing to do for-bye
looking for bairns.”

When Simon Grieve said that the Red Cock
was crowing over his enemies’ home, he meant
that he had set it on fire after the people who
lived in it had run away. :

Lady Ker grew pale when she heard what he
said. She hated the English, to be sure, but
she was a woman with a kind heart. She
thought of the dreadful danger that the little
English girl had escaped, and she went up-
stairs and helped the nurse to make the
child happy.