The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

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 ? 219