Auld Licht Idyls
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE SCHOOL-HOUSE II. THRUMS III. THE AULD LICHT KIRK IV. LADS AND LASSES V. THE AULD LICHTS IN ARMS VI. THE OLD DOMINIE VII. CREE QUEERY AND MYSY DROLLY VIII. THE COURTING OF T'NOWHEAD'S BELL IX. DAVIT LUNAN'S POLITICAL REMINISCENCES X. A VERY OLD FAMILY XI. LITTLE RATHIE'S "BURAL" XII. A LITERARY CLUB AULD LICHT IDYLS.
that Tommy Jones gave you yesterday afternoon?"
"Oh, what was that?" cried her two sisters; who took it in turns with
her to go for a short time in every day to the village-school which
their father and the rector had established: "Pray tell us, Mr.
Larkyns! Mary has said nothing about it." "Then," replied the
rector, "I am tongue-tied, until I have my fair friend's permission
to reveal how the teacher was taught."
Mary shook her sunny ringlets, and laughingly gave him the required
permission.
"You must know, then," said Mr. Larkyns, "that Miss Mary was giving
one of those delightful object-lessons, wherein she blends so much
instructive-"
"I'll trouble you for the butter, Mr. Larkyns," interrupted Mary,
rather maliciously.
The rector was grey-headed, and a privileged friend. "My dear," he
said, "I was just giving it you. However, the object-lesson was
going on; the subject being ~Quadrupeds~, which Miss Mary very
properly explained to be 'things with four legs.' Presently, she said
to her class, 'Tell me the names of some quadrupeds?' when Tommy
Jones, thrusting out his hand with the full conviction that he was
making an important suggestion, exclaimed, 'Chairs and tables!' That
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE SCHOOL-HOUSE II. THRUMS III. THE AULD LICHT KIRK IV. LADS AND LASSES V. THE AULD LICHTS IN ARMS VI. THE OLD DOMINIE VII. CREE QUEERY AND MYSY DROLLY VIII. THE COURTING OF T'NOWHEAD'S BELL IX. DAVIT LUNAN'S POLITICAL REMINISCENCES X. A VERY OLD FAMILY XI. LITTLE RATHIE'S "BURAL" XII. A LITERARY CLUB AULD LICHT IDYLS.