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CHAPTER III.
Haggart must have left Tillyloss with Chirsty heavy on his mind, for an hour afterward he was surprised to find lim- self out of Thrums. He was wandering beneath trees alongside the Whunny drain, which is said to have been chiseled from the recks when men’s wages were fourpence a day. Here he sat down, pre- paratory to turning back. It was now past his usual bedtime, and he had been twelve hours at work that day.
‘*T canna say whether I sat lang think- ing about Chirsty,’’ he efterwards ad- mitted; ‘‘but I mind watching a water- rat running out and in among some nettles till it got mixed in my mind
“with the shuttle of my loom, and by that
time I was likely sleeping.”’
The probability is that Tammas, who met no one, walked west from Tillyloss to Susie Linn’s pump, where he took the back wynd and made for the drain edge by the west town end. This is the route we have usually given him—though Lookaboutyou sends him round by the den—and [ have walked it often with Tammas when we were drawing up a sort of map of his wanderings. The last time I did this was in the company of Willlam Byars, who came back to Thrums recently after nearly thirty years’ absence, and spoke of Haggart the mo- ment his eyes lighted again on Tillyloss. Those that saw him say that William Was overcome with emotion when he gazed at the memorable outside stair, and at last walked away softly saying, ‘*Haggart was a man.’’ What I can say of my own knowledge is that William met me one day as I was coming into Thrums from my school-house and asked me as a favor to go round the ‘‘ Haggart places’’ with him. This I mention .as showing what a hold the affair we are now tracking took upon the popular mind.
I pointed out to William the very spot on which Tammas fell asleep. The drain edge path crossed the burn at that time by a’footbridge of stone, and climbed a paling into the Long Parks of Auchter- smellie. A boarding has been erected on this bridge to make travelers go an- other way, but it is also as good asa sign-post, for ten yards due south from it stands the short thick beech against which Tammas Haggart undoubtedly slept for nearly seven hours on that queer night. Even Lookaboutyou admits this.
To make the scene as vivid as possible, William, at my suggestion, sat down be- neath the tree like one sleeping. I then went a little way into the Long Parks and came back hurriedly, making pre- tense that it was a dark night. I climbed the paling, crossed the bridge—there be- ing two loose spars in the boarding—and was passing on when suddenly I saw a man sleeping at the foot of a tree. When regarding him I shivered, as if it was the depth of winter, and then noted that he had on a thick top-coat. Aftera little hesitation, I raised him cautiously and got the coat off without wakening him. I was rushing off with it when I remem- bered that the night was cold for him as well as for me, and flung my old coat down beside him. Then I hurried off, but of course came back directly, the make-believe being over.
Something very like« this happened while Haggart was asleep, though no human eye witnessed the scene. All we are sure of is that the thief was dressed in corduroys like Tammas’s, and that the coat he left behind him was a thin linen one, coarse, s‘ained—though not torn—and apparently worthless. There were twelve buttons on it—an unusual number, but not, as 'Tammas discovered, too many. It is a matter for regret that this coat was not preserved.
No doubt Tammas was shivering when he woke up, but all his minor troubles were swallowed in the loss of his top- coat, which was not only a fine one, but contained every penny he had in the world, namely, seven shillings and six-
pence in a line: bag. Fe climbed into the Long Purks looking for the thief; he
mi saioug the drain edge looking for him, and finally he sat down in dull
despair. It was a cruel Joss, and now not his indignation with Chirsty, but Chir- sty’s case against him, shook his frame.
‘‘The first use I ever made of the linen coat,’ he allowed, water off my een wi't.”’
Only fear of Chirsty can explain Hag- gart’s next step, which was, after putting on the linen coat, to wander off by the
Long Parks, instead of at once returning !
to Tillyloss.
I did not take William over the ground covered by Hazggart during the next three days; indeed, the great part of it is only known to me by vague report. Tammas doubtless had no notion when he ran away, as one might call it, from Chirsty, that he would sleep next night thirty miles from Thrums. At the back of the house of Auchtersmellie, however. he fell in with a wandering tailor, bound for a glen farm, where six weeks’ work awa t- ed him. He was not a man of these parts, but Tammas offered to walk a few miles with him, and ended by going the whole way. Of Haggart’s experiences at this time I know much, but none of them is visible beside the surprising event that sent him homewards striding.
It takes one aback to think that Hag- gart might never have been’ a humorist had not one of the buttons fallen off his coat. The immediate effect of this was dramatic rather than humorous. The tailor picked up the button to sew it on to the coat again, but surprised by its weight had_the curiosity. to tear its linen
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covering Witt iis scissors. THeén he drew in his breath, extending his eyes and looking so like a man who would pres- ently whistle with surprise that Haggart stooped forward to regard the button closely. Next moment he had snatched up the button wjth one hand and the coat with anvther, and was off like a racer to the tinkle of the starter’s bell.
When beyond pursuit, Haggart sat down to make certain that he was really arich man. The button that had fallen off was a guinea— gold guineas we said in Thrums, out of respect for _them— covered with cloth, and a brief examina- tion showed that the eleven other but- tons were of the same costly kind. One popular explanation of this mysterious affair is that. the tramp who left this coat to Tammas had stolen it from some person nnknown, without realizing its value. Who the owner was has never been discovered, but he was doubtless a miser, who liked to carry his hoard about with him unostentatiously. I have known of larger sums hidden’ by farmers in us unlikely places.
Before resuming his triumphal march home, Tammas pricked a hole in each of the buttons, to make sure of his fortune, and wasted some time in deciding that it would be safer to carry the guineas as they were than stowed away in his boots.
‘‘Sometimes on the road home,’’ he used to say, ‘‘I ran my head on a tree or splashed into a bog for it’s sair work to keep your een on twelve buttons when they're all in different places. Lads, I watched them as if they were living things.’’
William and I crossed from the drain edge to the hill, where the next scene in the drama was played. The hill is public ground to the north of Thrums, separat- ed from it by the cemetery and a new field. So steep is the descent that a heavy stone pushed from the south side of the hill-dyke might crash two minutes afterwards against the back walls of Tillyloss. The view from the hill is among the most extensive in Scotland, and it also exposes some dilapidated courts in Thrums that are difficult to find when you are within a few feet of them. Fifty years ago the hill was nearly
* covered with whins, anditishalf hidden
in them still, D. Fittis.
For some reason that I probably never knew, we always called him D. Fittis, but tradition remembers him as the Whinslayer. At a time when neither William nor I was of an age to play smuggle, D. Fittis’s wife lay dying far up Glen Quharity. Her head was on D. Fittis’s breast, and the tears on her cheeks came from his eyes. There were no human beings within an hour’s trudge of them, and what made D. Fittis gulp was that he must leave Betsy alone while he ran through the long night for the Thrums doctor, or sit with her till she died.
‘*YVe’ll no leave me, Davie,’’ she said.
“Oh, Betsy; if I had the doctor, ye micht live.’’
Betsy did not think she could live, but she knew her man writhed in his help- lessness, and she told him to go.
‘‘Put on your cravat, Davie,’’ she said, ‘‘and mind and button up your coat.’’
‘‘Oh, but I’m loth to gang frae ye,”’ he said when his cravat was round his neck and he stood hokling Betsy’s hand.
‘‘God’s with me, Davie, and with you,’’ Betsy said, but she could not help clinging to him, and then JD. Fittis cried, ‘‘Oh, blessed God, Thou didst in Thy great wisdom make poor folk like me, in Thy hands I leave this woman, and oh, ye micht spare her to me.’’
‘“‘Ay, but God’s will be done,’ said Betsy. ‘‘He kens best.”’
It was not God’s will that these two should meet again on this earth. At the school-house, which was to become my home, D. Fittis found friends who has- tened to his wife’s side, and Craigie- buckle lent him a horse on which he galloped off to Thrums. But among the whins of the hill the horse flung him and broke his leg. D. Fittis tried to crawl the rest of the way, but he was found next morning in a wild state among the whins, and he was never a sane man again. For the remainder of his life he had but one passion—to cut down the whins, and many a time, at early morn, at noon, and when gloaming was coming on, I have seen him busy among them with his scythe. They grew as fast as he could cut, but he had loy- ing relatives to tend him, and was still a kindly harmless man, though his laugh was empty.
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