ELDER EEL
SCENE
: The Marhet-place of the Village (yf Honghmagnndie.
[Enter L.,
BONES, BUN, CHIPS, TONGS, and GRAB.
All are
dressed
in
the
blaek shiny
clothes
conventional on
Sundays in the provinces.
They are followed by a
number of women dressed with eonaljfiropriety, who enter
the houses that surroundthe market-plate,and disagfipear.
One of them, JEANNIE MACKAY, walks afiart, and as if
ashamed of herself.
The scene is one of eharaoteristie
Sabbath gloom.
The men carry immense blade Bibles.
They walk very slowly and heavily]
BONES. A stirring discourse.
CHIPS. Ay! the meenister was juist gran'.
TONGS. Losh! But that was guid about the destruction ο'
Sennacherib.
BUN. Ay!
GRAB. D'ye ken what he meant?
ALL. Ay! Ay! Ayl
GRAB. D’ye ken what he meant?
BONES. Ay! the meenister‘s verra clear.
GRAB. Na! Na! but d’ye ken he was drivin' the arrow of
the Wurrd to oor ain hairts ?
BONES. Ay
1 But what d‘ye mean ?
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