Highland Simplicity

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 3

Highland Simplicity

■ ■:■■ . ■■'■ — — — +r_ : — rv ; ; ; ■••:•• A. *oor simple Highlander, whovence made.: his . appearance at Stirlingshire and jKtf-chased a cart of Mthe, met witn an adventure , sufficiently untoward. Donald' had no sooner got his cart filled, than he turned his'own and his'hb'rse's head to hu own l dear HigfcUnd hilt^He had- nbtv.bowerer, gone far bey dad Stirling Bridge wlienjtt: smart sbow^'uof rain came qn.. , Th» Jime ; = began to, smoke. Donald^ whe.wv sitting. °£ the fron£ of his cart, at first supposed tt to be nothing but a 1 whift of mountain mist, but at last becomirigenvelbped :i m the cloud, and no longer able* to see his Way before him, he bethought him it wa» time to o*st a look beliindy aud was not a little amazed to discover, that the whole cause, of the annoyance proceeded from his cart oH|jiie.- ; ,^*as "on. fire i ■ but how, was "IplTond hl« compreh'en«ion. He stopped his horse an* tio6& strip, ! in hopes ! tTie roiife wootd qaeneh'the intruding element bat reinarlinc n* abateßsenf; he next drove his cart to a, s.treau at^a short disUinco f anß, hi« began lustily to throw water upon his smoking load.- This speedily; brought Donald s difficulties' to a crisis, for his steed uaacenstomed to the beat which threatened to deprive him of his tail, began now to •xhibit symptons of open rebellion. Beside*, seeing that his cart was in danger of being burnt to a cinder, and not knowing but the horse might take it into his head to commence burning ton, h« was resolved the bewitched load, and **the>air beast and braw bit cart," should instantly be disunited. He accordingly unyokvd the impatient animal and immediately buried, the smoking lime in. the stream, triumphantly exclaiming as the hissing mass* yield to the overpowinc •lenient, ""The iievil's in^her' if she'llbarnnoo." •-'' = '••• > ' : '■'■' ■■