Werner's readings and recitations Volume 21 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...die this year. It's more than seven year now since I first kenned that my days were to be few. It was the year my faither died, and left Harry and me by our lane. ' He left no sillar to speak of, just plenty to lay him decently in the kirkyard among his forebears. I had been troubled with my chest for some time, and so called one daj at the infirmary to get a word with Sir James. He was very busy when I went in, and never noticed me till the cough took me. Then on a sudden he looked up from his papers, came quickly over to me, and said: 'Come into my room, laddie.' Ay, he was a good man and a faithful--Sir James--if ever there was one. He told me that with care I might live five or six years, but it would need great care. ' I came my ways home to the Dullarg, and night and day I considered what was to be done, with so much to do and so little time to do it. It was clear that both Harry and me could not go through the college on the little my faither had left. So late one night I saw my way clear to what I should do. Harry must go, I must stay. I must come home to the farm, and be my own 'man;' then I could send Harry to the college to be a doctor, for he had no call to the ministry, as once I thought I had. More than that, it was laid on me to tell Jessie Loudon that Robert Frazer was no better than a machine set to go five years. "Now all these things I did, Saunders, but there's no use telling you what they cost in the doing. I do not repent any of them. I would do them all over again were they to do, but it's been bitterer than 1 thought." The Stickit Minister took his head off his hand and leaned wearily back in his chair. ' The story went over the country that I had failed in my examinations, and I never said that I had not. I settled down to...