Page:The Cottagers of Glenburnie - Hamilton (1808).djvu/174

 their sweet smell. They might do this too at very little trouble."

"Ay, but they canna be fashed," said Mrs MacClarty; "and it does just weel eneugh."

Mr Stewart now appeared, and with him the farmer, who saluted Mrs Mason with a hearty welcome, and pressed all the party to go in and taste his whisky, to prevent, as he said, the tea from doing them any harm. As the car was now ready, Mr Stewart begged to be excused from accepting the invitation; and after laying a kind injunction on Mrs Mason, to consider no place so much her home as Gowan-brae, he set off with his family on their return homewards.