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CHAPTER IV.

Randal and Jean.

HE little girl soon made everyone at

Tt Fairnilee happy. She was far too young
Qe to remember her own home, and pre-
sently she was crawling up and down

; the long hall and making friends with

Randal. They found out that her name
was Jane Musgrave, though she could hardly
say Musgrave; and they called her Jean, with
their Scotch tongues, or “‘Jean o’ the Kye,”
because she came when the cows were driven
home again.

Soon the old nurse came to ie her near as
well as Randal, ‘her ain bairn”’ (her own
child), as she called him. In the summer
days, Jean, as she grew older, would follow
Randal about like a little doggie. They went
fishing together, and Randal would pull the
trout out of Caddon Burn, or the Burn of
Peel; and Jeanie would be very proud of him,
and very much alarmed at the big, wide jaws
of the yellow trout. And Randal would plait
helmets with green rushes for her and him,
and make spears of bulrushes, and play at tilts

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