their own hands and are turning it into quite a model farm.

The children are at school. Jeemsie is said to be able to do
everything except talk. Tam is bent on being a priest.

Val got his shinty club and his parish hall, and if he wants anything
for the church or for himself he has but to mention it. Indeed, he had
almost to use force to prevent Christian handing over half her fortune.

Golden dreams do, now and again, it seems, get realized!




X

A RUSTIC PASTOR


"In sober state,
Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way."
(_Porteus--"Death."_)


The priest who ministered to the Catholic flock of Ardmuirland in the
far-off days when "Bell o' the Burn" was a lassie was known as "Mr.
McGillivray"; for the repeal of the penal laws had not yet emancipated
the people from the cautious reticence of the days of persecution, and