“Ay,” remarked the elder to the minister, “I sair doot that's Daecon MacTavish. He’s been at ane o' thae suffragette meetin’s !” “Or at a fitba' match,” suggested the minister. “He has a’ the appearance o’ a referee.” The subject of their remarks was a forlorn object,’ huddled upon the doorstep of the MacTavish domicile. “It’s oor bounden duty, Tammas,”
continued the minister, “to ring the bell and hand him ower to the Mercies o' his wife.”
And so they rang the bell, to be confronted presently by Deacon MacTavish in person. “Good-evenin’, Deacon MacTavish” said the elder, in surprise. “And so ye’re at kame, aifter a’ ?” “Ay !” replied MacTavish. “Why should I not be at hame ?”
“Oh, naething—naething !” replied the minister, keeping a firm grip of the huhappy tramp who had caused the mistake. “But we thocht this was you- Ys’ve had a narrow escape, deacon—a verra narrow escape !”•
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 50, 3 August 1908, Page 8
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