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her speech that day, but Jane's stupid head could draw no inferences from these, or any thing else. She asked if she was well enough, and the other saying she was, Jane took it for granted that she was so, and only added, “Your crazed auntie would gar me believe ye war in some jeopardy, and hurried me away to see you, without giving me leave to change a steek." One may easily conceive Tibby's astonishment at hearing this, considering the moment at which her grandmother arrived. As soon as the latter was gone, she kneeled before her Maker, and poured out her soul in greatful thanksgiving for her deliverance; and, in particular, for such a manifert interference of some superior intelligence in her behalf.
"How did ye find our poor bairn the day titty Jane? was the trial ower afore ye wan? or did ye gie a helping hand at raising the siege?—Ooogh?”
"Whaten siege? I saw nae siege, nor heard tell of any."
“The great siege o' the castle o' Mansoul, that Bunyan speaks about, ye ken. Was it ower? Or is it to try for again? Oh! ye dinna understand me! Did ye ever understand ony things a' your days? Did our bairn no tell ye ony thing?"
“She tauld me naething but that she
