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Testing times in Segget as Chris is met with suspicion and town rumours, which upset Robert. Clashes with the striking miners ends in tragedy.
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00:00To be continued...
00:30Ewan was growing up, near ten years old now,
00:49sturdy and slim, with his firm round shoulders,
00:54that dun gold skin he got from me,
00:56and his father's black, blue hair.
01:00Robert!
01:03He called me mother.
01:05But Robert was...
01:07Robert.
01:09They got on well enough, though.
01:12Robert was fun when he wasn't at work,
01:15with the kirk or the spinners or his labour plans.
01:18And that summer of 1924,
01:20we often went out on jaunts up and down the Howe.
01:24On these picnics, Robert was changed and young,
01:28teaching Ewan to throw and do the high jump,
01:31or helping him look for the flints which had become Ewan's passion in life.
01:35For nothing excited his calm, cool eyes,
01:42except now and then a broad flake flint,
01:45the hunting weapon of one who had roamed these hills,
01:48naked and bright, in a golden age,
01:52without fear or hope or hate or love,
01:58living high in the race of the wind and the race of life,
02:02mating as simple as beasts or birds,
02:06dying with like simpleness.
02:09Is there anything wrong, mother?
02:12No.
02:15Only you look like a hunter yourself.
02:18Strayed and lost from the golden age.
02:21Excuse me, Mum. Just a minute.
02:23Oh!
02:25Come on, Ewan. Bed.
02:28Oh, aye!
02:49You're here.
02:51I thought I'd take a dander over and see how you were.
02:57Where's the minister?
02:59Up in the study, talking to Jock Cronin.
03:02Aye.
03:04Likely it'll be a long talk.
03:12Oh, it's coming, Jock. Don't you worry about that.
03:14Socialism's coming.
03:16Maybe.
03:17But it's taken a guy a long time to come to Seggart.
03:22Let's talk that young Mowat's gonna close down the mills again,
03:25because he's got over much stock in hand.
03:27Oh?
03:28I've heard nothing of that. I was speaking to him only last week.
03:31Aye.
03:32Well, maybe he's got more important things in mind.
03:35Such as?
03:37Oh, he's returned from his London jaunt, too.
03:39He's painted women this time.
03:41Oh, I'm told you can hear the screeching all over the house.
03:44If you get told a lot of things in Seggart, you shouldn't pay any heed to.
03:47Young Mowat may have some daft ideas, but I've hopes for him yet.
03:50Aye, and well, he might have.
03:53The last time he closed in the mills,
03:55he said he was jolly sorry for the spinners.
03:58And he couldnae say it fairer than that.
04:00Now could he.
04:04Good night, Mr Gotham.
04:05Good night, Jock.
04:08Elsa's gone to bed. I'll clear the tea things from the study.
04:11No, no, it's all right. I've got them here on the hall table.
04:14By the sound of it, I'll be officiating at young Cronin's wedding before long.
04:18Oh, who's he marrying?
04:19Young Jeannie Grant, the schoolteacher.
04:21Should cause a stir.
04:22With him being only a railway porter.
04:24It's as good a job as any.
04:26Aye.
04:41This won't do else.
04:49And Faith, that fairly set folk agog,
04:52when else Queen had to leave the manse.
04:54Folks said it just showed you the way the world was going.
04:58Dirty spinners that gave you their lip, work hard to get.
05:02And ministers that couldn't look after their servant lasses.
05:06Well, for whatever it is, it took place at the manse,
05:08you might well guess it wasn't just a prayer.
05:09For else Queen's Tina Fiat Meikle Boggs is DL's housekeeper.
05:23And the way I heard it, the minister's language was fair terrible when he found him together.
05:32He was fair in a rage at all Meikle Boggs.
05:34Well, he would be, if he asked me.
05:37Cahoon slept with the lass themselves,
05:40and he'd be overmeaned to share her out.
05:43Is that a fact now?
05:45No, it's not a fact. It's a darn lie.
05:48The minister had nothing to do with the quine.
05:51Else left the manse of her own free will.
05:54And the minister's over decent and fond of his wife to touch a servant lass.
05:58Go on, Ogilvy, you fair enjoy taking the guts for a fine bit, Dale.
06:02Just tell me this, eh, Ogilvy.
06:04If he's not the kind to go with only but quine,
06:07why is he so friendly with dirt like Jock Cronin, eh?
06:10Well, what's that to do with?
06:11Well, he's one of these socialists that say you might lie where you like
06:15and don't believe in morals or marriage.
06:17Oh, Edders!
06:18It's not. It's true.
06:19I read it in the People's Journal.
06:21Oh, jeez.
06:22Ah, but fit the course thinks they in Russia with women.
06:24Oh, man.
06:25They fair have a time with women there.
06:27Oh, aye.
06:28And would you say it would be easy to get a joke there?
06:39Good day, Else. How nice to see you.
06:41Hello, minister.
06:42And how are you keeping?
06:43Fine, thanks.
06:44And how's Mrs. going?
06:45She's fine.
06:46And little Ian?
06:47Some said they didn't believe it at all about Else and Dale,
06:50with him being a decent light shield
06:52and an elder at the Kirk farby.
06:55But those that said he was innocent
06:58got a sore shock ere the year was out.
07:01Fit like provost?
07:02Aye.
07:07Else worked outdoors and indoors at a new place.
07:11And that September the harvest came.
07:13And it came fell heavy.
07:15Aye, Else.
07:16You have more to do than feed the horse.
07:18The cart needs loading.
07:22It's overloaded already, you mucker.
07:24You mucker.
07:25Jim can hardly pull it.
07:26You mucker.
07:27You mucker.
07:28You mucker.
07:29You mucker.
07:31Here she find a full knife issue.
07:31Give me an suisse, trample
07:32.
07:33Here, here, him.
07:34You, mucker.
07:35Go back!
07:37Go back!
07:39Go back, you fucker!
07:41Go back, you fucker!
07:43Go back, you fucker!
07:45Go back, you fucker!
07:47Go back, you fucker!
07:49Go back, you fucker!
07:51Go back, go, John!
07:53And back, you fucker!
07:55There was no need for that!
07:57He's done nothing!
07:59D'ach!
08:01The way you talk, folk would think his ill-treated!
08:03Come on!
08:05You gotta be up and doing some work!
08:07I'll do that!
08:09Ya mucker!
08:33I'll need you to lend me a hand in the waft!
08:35Get done from the cart and come round!
08:37Hey, Vars!
08:39Do you think I'll kinda jump?
08:41Ah!
08:42Ah!
08:47I'll need you to lend me a hand in the waft!
08:49Get done from the cart and come round!
08:51Hey, Vars!
08:53Do you think I'll kinda jump?
08:55Damn!
09:05OK, Vars!
09:07Why would you take a bath?
09:09Oh, that's good.
09:11Um...
09:13I'll need you to take a bath.
09:15Too bad.
09:16I'll need you to take a bath...
09:17I'll need you to take a bath.
09:19You'll need you to take a bath.
09:21I'll need you to take a bath.
09:23Oh, well, send her for the doctor.
09:37But why?
09:40What's the matter with you?
09:41My time's come, you old fill.
09:45You want your band born here in the loft?
09:48All right.
09:49You want your bairn bone here in the loft?
10:02It's a boy.
10:05And healthy enough.
10:08Else he'll be fine.
10:12Is the bairn yours?
10:14No.
10:16Wouldn't say that.
10:18Whose is it, then?
10:21Ha! Immaculate Conception.
10:24Something in the air of Meikle Boggs.
10:27You've had other housekeepers taken the same way.
10:34That winter came with the white weather of frost,
10:37and at its close the ground was as hard and as cold as iron,
10:42ribbed with a veining of frost each morning.
10:46The water pipes were frozen in the manse.
10:58The horses of all the farmers out and about
11:00were brought to the Smitty to have their shoes cogged.
11:03Except for one.
11:13That's a loss of them, then.
11:14Aye, and one too damn many, if you ask me.
11:16Well, Jim should have been to the Smitty long afore this.
11:18His shoes fair need attention.
11:20No, no, he'll be fine, he'll be fine.
11:23Jim's fair a willing old brute to a horsey.
11:25Just let him tuck his time.
11:27Aye, well, he damn near slipped coming up the bray.
11:31Just lead him on the grass the side of the road.
11:33That'll ease him a bit.
11:34Aye, you and it yourself.
11:55You done your homework.
11:58Learned kerabby burns.
12:04Easy.
12:07Easy.
12:08Easy.
12:09Easy.
12:11Easy.
12:13Easy now.
12:15Easy.
12:17Easy.
12:19Why shouldn't folks say things plain?
12:28I agree with you about Burns, but I've written a few verses myself.
12:35Listen.
12:40In the name of God was that.
12:49Get up, you old devil.
12:53Don't get up, I say.
12:54Give it to him.
12:55There's nothing like discipline for horses and men.
12:57I'll teach the old mucker to go sliding a boot.
13:00Come on, get up, you old bugger.
13:04What the hell do you think you're doing?
13:05Getting this old cuddy back on its feet.
13:07Well, that's no way to set up with it.
13:12Oh, God.
13:15It's got a shaft buried in its guts.
13:18Oh, God.
13:19Michael Bogues will set me for this.
13:21Middle of day if I lose my job in the middle of the season.
13:24I'll just stay to stir him.
13:26He cannae get a fee for love of money right in the middle of winter.
13:28He can't.
13:29And that old mucker, Michael Bogues...
13:31Stop your snifter than your haber.
13:32This poor brute's in agony.
13:34Now then, fits the list of disturbance about.
13:37Well, surely you can see what it is.
13:39The horse got it in a patch of ice.
13:41It was the Burns that were using it for a slide.
13:43Aye, and the minister's boy there.
13:45He was the worst of them.
13:46I see.
13:47The horse skedded on the slide.
13:50Good.
13:51Are you going to write everything down while the beast lies there in its misery?
13:54I have my duty to do, Mr Ogilvy.
13:56You'll be asking next if the horse has a criminal record.
13:58Get a gun and put the poor brute out to its misery.
14:00Not so fast.
14:01Not so fast.
14:02The owner of the horse will have to be consulted first.
14:04Then get on your bike and cycle up to the Meikle Bogues.
14:07Aye.
14:08Aye.
14:09I'll cycle up to the Meikle Bogues and ask him.
14:11Right now.
14:12You best stand back.
14:13Just you, by the way.
14:14You're all right.
14:15The beast will be short.
14:16He'll be short.
14:17You're all right.
14:18I'll cycle out to the Meikle.
14:19I'll cycle out to the Meikle.
14:20A little bit of a new bit.
14:21I'll cycle out to the Meikle.
14:22I'll cycle out to the Meikle.
14:23I'll cycle out to the Meikle.
14:24Right now you best stand back. Just you by the way. If the beast be short there'd be
14:44any insurance. Eh? Aye. As to die in natural causes. Well can't you see it's in hell with a shaft
14:52driving into its guts. This horse is my property constable Leslie and I'll look to you to see
14:59that it's not destroyed. Aye. Do you hear that Mr. Ogilvy? Better take home that gun of yours. You you dirty old mucker you foul old darn heap I should use the gun on you. Now now we'll have none of that
15:13language here Mr. Ogilvy. Just be on your way. Mr. DL has every right to be worried about his insurance. Aye that's so.
15:22I'll just a once and a wire to Stunhaven asking them what the position is. Aye.
15:37Robert. Ake Ogilvy's in the kitchen. He's been waiting for the past two hours. What's happened?
15:43The bloody swine. The bloody swine. That's a strange like thing to say about the horse.
15:59Meikle Boggs. Where is he? Oh he loaded his corn onto another cart and he's way back to attempt his work.
16:05Right. Ake. Cock your gun. Now just a minute. Mr. DL hasn't had word back from his insurance company yet.
16:10Likely doesn't expect word back today. When must we? Shut up!
16:18Stand back there. Damn you! Stand back!
16:24Ake. Aim canny.
16:40What for did he call the horse a swine? He meant DL you daft old fool.
16:49My God. It was right course of him to speak about decent people like that.
16:54It just shows you the kind of tink he is. Him with his labour and socialism and all.
16:59Aye. They tell me Mr. Cahoon that you had my horse shot. Do they? Then they tell you the truth.
17:11Oh then I'll sue you for that. You can sue and be damned and I'll tell you a thing that I am to do.
17:17Oh and what might that be? Report you for cruelty by the very first post.
17:21You're the kind of scoundrel that's over common in Scotland.
17:25Say of me what you said now. I said that you're a damn scoundrel.
17:29Mind there's a witness to hear us minister. Get out and I'll throw you out!
17:34Oh well else! You nothing to do but stand about Marilyn!
18:03Get my supper ready or I'll need a new housekeeper.
18:06Is this true that I've heard of the horse?
18:09Ah, it's true. Will you get my supper ready?
18:13No, but I'll give you my notice.
18:17I've stuck queer things at your hands, Micklebox.
18:20I've been crazed or daft that I've stuck them so long,
18:23but I won't bite another night in your house.
18:25Ah, well, just going, you and your fatherless bairn!
18:30I'll do that, but the bairn has a father.
18:34God, better hit the father it has!
18:50So you're a while else?
18:51I won't be back.
18:52Before you'll be spending the next night?
18:54At my father's.
18:56By hurry, I'll just mark the train for Forden.
18:57Ach, eh, maybe you didn't have to go that far for a bed, lassie, eh?
19:02My one's got you cosy.
19:09I'll get it, bitch!
19:13And others thought the same of else for leaving Micklebox without warning like that.
19:18Her and her blethering over a horse.
19:20Aye, Mr Cajoon's mare in need of trying to reform that boy of his
19:24and interfering with her folk.
19:25Aye.
19:26To set the boy's eyes sneaking into the lassies' playground
19:29and cuddling and kissing them when they're at games.
19:31Aye, you're getting that proud-looking wife of his way of bairn.
19:34Dammit, is that an example to show?
19:37I mean, when I was loon up at Garvick, there was this man...
19:40Now, what you say is very true, Mr Leslie.
19:42Hey there, folk of bairns.
19:44We come with the seasons.
19:45There's no escape from your wedded and bedded.
19:48Isn't there? How?
19:51Let me tell you now.
19:52I've seen shops in London where things are for sale
19:55that a man can use right handy-like.
19:58And you never father a family.
20:00No, not you.
20:01You can sin as much as you like and pay nothing.
20:10Best your belief that's what they do up at the Mons?
20:13Sure as death.
20:15That's why Mrs Cajoon goes around like a quine.
20:18With a skin like cream and a figure like that
20:20with hardly a chest in the crater at all.
20:22Aye, instead of broadening out in a boat
20:25and looking squash and soppy like a woman of her age.
20:28Like Mistress Hogg.
20:29Man, would you no say that was a scandal, promise?
20:33I'd say, but it's my opinion.
20:34The minister's teeing up with some other woman.
20:37What makes you say that?
20:39They say that the father of Else Queen's Bairn
20:41was all to Yale.
20:42But I came to do so with that.
20:46You mean Cajoon?
20:53Man, I'm telling you, it's all over, Saget.
20:55The minister feared her's Queen's Bairn.
20:58The provost themselves saw the two of them together.
21:00Cajoon was making ardent love to her.
21:03The ladders.
21:04It's true.
21:05And even if it was,
21:06what has the business to do with old hairy hog?
21:09He himself, it seems,
21:10has done more than just lie by the side of his wife.
21:13Of that gop as he has for a son's, not his.
21:15By God, Ogilvy, you've a curse why you're speaking.
21:18Trying to blacken the character of a man
21:20that's not here to defend himself.
21:22You mean the minister?
21:23You can find him in the provost.
21:31It's fair a matter of public scandal, Mr. Mowat.
21:35A disgrace to our fine wee borough.
21:37Yeah, it all sounds rather jolly to me,
21:39Cajoon and the servant girl, eh?
21:41Just that.
21:42And him with no burdens of his own.
21:45Well, he's named by his wife.
21:47Ah, some have all the luck.
21:49But if Mrs. Cajoon is in need of a burn,
21:51I'll give half a year's profit to provide with one, eh?
21:55What?
21:55Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:56Ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:57That's a fine tale going around with your minister friend, eh?
22:04That's a fine tale going around about your minister friend, eh?
22:18And a tale is all it is.
22:20You'd ken, Jock.
22:22You mean that fell thick with a man's as if you slobbered your bros from the same ball.
22:25Listen, the whole thing's a damn lie.
22:28It's just an attempt to discredit socialists in Sagan.
22:31He's all right, Cahoon.
22:32And so the tale was spread through the wines about me and Robert and Elsa and her bairn.
22:39I laughed when I heard it.
22:41But Robert was in one of his black, angry moods.
22:45Though they'd come but seldom enough this last three years.
22:48How can you laugh, Chris? How can you laugh at their foul slanders?
22:52Oh, because I know them and I don't take them seriously.
22:55God, that must be fine for you. I have to take them seriously.
22:57I'm their minister, their religious mentor.
23:00Religion.
23:03A Scot, no religion.
23:04Half of them think of God as a Scot with brosy morals and a penchant for burns.
23:09Oh, Robert!
23:09And the other half are over damn mean to allow the almighty even existence.
23:15You know which half you belong to, I think.
23:17What a ranter and raver I am, Christine.
23:39I think you'll outlast me a thousand years.
23:41Still, the tale kept Saget gossiping right through the summer months, and near into winter again.
23:56But before winter came, I had other things to think about.
24:00Well, the way things are going, there's bound to be trouble, with a minus for a start.
24:03Don't you agree, Chris?
24:05What?
24:06Oh, I'm sorry.
24:10You're dreaming, Christine.
24:12Really, Mrs. Cajun, do tell us the joke.
24:14What joke?
24:15The one that's making you smile in that charming way.
24:19Oh, I expect I'm full up of supper.
24:21I'll say, I think that's a jolly untruth, you know.
24:27I smiled, because that November I knew for sure.
24:32I'd puzzled and puzzled, but at last I had known,
24:36and woke one day sure, and lay, and dreamt,
24:41and watched Robert as he dressed.
24:44Something moved in my heart.
24:47Laughter for him.
24:50A queer pity for him.
24:53Oh, men were funny.
24:57And just boys to be pitied.
24:59Chris?
25:00You look strange.
25:01You're feeling all right?
25:04Fine.
25:04Robert, we're going to have a baby.
25:19We're?
25:21Well, I am.
25:24But you had a share.
25:27Really?
25:29Honest to God.
25:32We are.
25:32Oh, it's real enough.
25:36Though I don't know how it happened.
25:38You.
25:40I haven't the least idea.
25:46Anyway, it's due in July.
25:49Oh.
25:50Aye, well, for all our planning,
25:52if we'd planned it at all,
25:53we could surely have planned it better than that.
25:55Well, July's a good enough month for a baby to be born.
25:57I was just thinking July might be too hot for comfort.
25:59No, it's my work, and you're not to fuss around me.
26:02Just you stand back and aside.
26:05There's little you can do to help.
26:06Well, that's true enough.
26:11Christine.
26:12A baby.
26:15Good Lord.
26:16I hope it's a girl.
26:19What does it feel like, being as you are?
26:23A nuisance just, or tremendous and terrible?
26:28None of these.
26:30Just makes you feel sick now and then.
26:35Chris Caledonia.
26:36I've married a nation.
26:43Robert went away that New Year's Eve
26:45into Aberdeen.
26:46He wouldn't say why,
26:48but I could guess,
26:50and I laughed at him.
26:52Mine now.
26:53Nothing expensive.
26:54What, and drinks?
26:55I'm going to squat in a pub
26:57and swizzle confusion
26:58to all the doer surrogs of Saget.
27:00You're joking.
27:02I wish you weren't.
27:04I wish you would do just that.
27:06I wish you would do just that.
27:07So he kissed me,
27:16and when striding away down the shingle,
27:20his kiss still pressed on my lips as I stood,
27:23and tingling a bit,
27:25like a bee on a flower.
27:37I thought I'd go out and meet Robert.
27:40But outside,
27:43a queer thought and memory came to me,
27:46and I turned about from going to the gate
27:48and went back instead to the wall
27:51that guarded the kirkyard of Saget.
27:53And I minded how once I had stood there before,
28:11four years or more,
28:13after the Saget show,
28:15me and Robert together.
28:18And I thought of the vanished folk in the yard
28:20and planned to add to those
28:23that supplanted.
28:37And idly,
28:40standing,
28:42I wrote my name.
28:46And I look back to that other Chris
28:48that had been with child,
28:50a child herself or little more.
28:54That Chris that had been.
28:59The Chris far off in that vanished year,
29:04who had lain in terror as nights came down
29:06with the knowledge of the thing that moved within me.
29:10The fruit of my love for the boy I had wed.
29:15Ewan,
29:16sleeping so quiet and sound in my bed.
29:19I wrote with my finger another name on the kirkyard dyke,
29:33and heard, as I wrote,
29:36far up in the cames,
29:39a peasy weep.
29:41Maybe a lost memory from those years in Kinradi.
29:44A peasy that had known that other Chris.
29:52Then I stamped my feet
29:53and walked from my dreaming
29:55as down through the dark
29:56I heard footsteps on the shingle.
29:58Robert!
29:58Trade was failing everywhere,
30:09and Segert's mills were often idle.
30:13The spinners would hang round the room
30:14where their dole was paid by a little clerk.
30:17They'd lay there and snicker at the women that passed
30:19and yawn
30:21with weir in a stamped on each face
30:23and smoke and whistle some more.
30:34Aye, it's bad, Chris.
30:36Worse than it's ever been.
30:38But we'll alter these things forever in May.
30:40Why, what happens in May?
30:41It's the testing time, Chris.
30:43You know how it stands with the miners.
30:45I should.
30:46You're I preaching their cause from the pulpit
30:47and making few friends in doing it.
30:50That's as may be.
30:51The time's passed for preaching.
30:53The miners intend to strike in May
30:55unless their wages are raised.
30:57A testing time.
30:59And theirs is a testing case.
31:02The triumph of greed
31:03or the triumph of God.
31:09I had hardly a thought in the matter myself
31:11because of that nameless doubt
31:14that was mine
31:14doubt of men and method
31:17that came to change the world
31:19that was waiting for change.
31:24I watched the coming of that spring
31:26quick on the hills
31:28on the upland parks
31:30the red ploughed land
31:33steamed hot in the sun
31:35as Nicolbog's men
31:37drove slow their great teams
31:39in the steam of the watching world of spring.
31:42I saw the fields change
31:46as I looked from the window
31:48of that room in the manse
31:49that had been set
31:50with the Blauiri gear.
31:53It was there
31:53that I intended
31:54the baby to be born.
31:55I stood still
32:06and watched
32:08and remembered
32:09and put my hand up to my heart
32:13and lower
32:15by belly and thigh
32:18and slow
32:21under my hand
32:23that shape
32:24would turn.
32:27May close
32:29and July closer now
32:31I felt fit and well
32:35contented
32:37at peace
32:39Wait till it comes
32:44she's the kind
32:46that takes all
32:46with having a burn
32:47over narrow she is
32:50she'll fair have a time
32:52I'll warrant the doctor
32:53I'll need his bit connives
32:55I shall now look so bon
32:57if it comes her time
32:58there must be
33:00more in this
33:00than you think
33:01You say provost
33:02I was having a talk
33:04once with young Mowat
33:05in a matter of civic business
33:08you understand
33:08and I happened to mention
33:11the manse
33:12in passing
33:13he said he gave half
33:16a year's profits
33:16to lie
33:17with mistress Cahoon
33:18Faith provost
33:20and what do you say to that
33:21Oh I just get a bit laugh
33:24you can't a bit laugh
33:25at the joke of the gent
33:26If it was a joke
33:29Just what I was thinking
33:32it may well depend
33:34it was male and a spick
33:35Scandalous so it is
33:37and the words all over said it
33:39tend to win the bairns
33:41near the ministers at all
33:43My
33:44what would the minister say
33:46if he can't
33:47Likely he encouraged her
33:49but I mean to say
33:50half a year's profits
33:52Sin
33:53Nothing but sin
33:56Black
33:57black
33:58sin
33:58all around us
34:00and scarlet
34:01priests
34:02living in shame
34:04Most of the gossip
34:07I heard or knew
34:08and cared
34:09little or nothing
34:10Folk were like that
34:12I thought if you'd
34:14neither books
34:15nor God
34:16nor music
34:17nor love
34:18nor hate
34:18a standbys
34:19no pillar of cloud
34:21to lead your feet
34:22You tart
34:24to telling scandal
34:25of your nearest neighbours
34:26making of them
34:28devils
34:29and heroes
34:30and saints
34:30to brighten your days
34:32and give you a thrill
34:34and God knows
34:36they were welcome
34:36to get one from me
34:38I found myself liking them
34:41as never before
34:42kindled to a new interest
34:45in every known face
34:46seized again and again
34:48in the second winds
34:49looking at the rat-like
34:52dyked Pete
34:53at MacDougal Brown's
34:56bald head
34:56at the lizard-like
34:59Mowat
35:00with a startling thought
35:03he was once a bern
35:07it nearly put you off
35:10having one sometimes
35:11I looked at him
35:15and it seemed to me
35:17I was looking at more
35:18than Mowat
35:18the class that had made
35:21of the folk of Saget
35:22the dirt-hungry folk
35:24that they had been
35:25and were
35:26made them so
35:28in sheer greed
35:29and sheer brag
35:31but it's a damn
35:33nuisance this business
35:34what business?
35:35this dash minor strike
35:36they say it might spread
35:38so
35:39I've
35:40I've been getting up
35:41a list
35:41just in case
35:42for the OMS
35:43what's that?
35:45well it's a sort of
35:46volunteer army
35:47Mrs. Cajun is being
35:48prepared throughout the
35:49country to see that
35:49we're all fed
35:50to drive the buses
35:51to keep the trains
35:52running that sort of
35:53thing when the mines
35:54strike
35:54well I've got some
35:56jolly good volunteers
35:57already
35:58Provost Hogg very keen
35:59Geddes the schoolmaster
36:01Melvin the inkkeeper
36:02have any refused?
36:04oh
36:04couple
36:05fellow who runs
36:07a grocery shop
36:08MacDougal
36:09what's his name
36:10yes
36:11Brown
36:11says his living
36:13depends on the
36:14spinners
36:14scared of offending
36:15them I suppose
36:16had the cheek
36:17to preach a sermon
36:18at me
36:18something about
36:19if all the world
36:21renounced its sin
36:22the cares of the
36:23wild would be
36:23ended tomorrow
36:25I've said much
36:26the same thing
36:27myself
36:27but you weren't
36:28putting sawdust
36:29on the oatmeal
36:30when you said it
36:30oh I say
36:31it doesn't does it
36:32probably not
36:33but the sacred folk
36:34like to say that
36:35he does
36:35well he is the only
36:37one
36:37not counting
36:38the joiner chappy
36:39why don't you
36:40count A. Gogglevy
36:41well he isn't
36:42really on either
36:42side
36:43told me that
36:44they could hamstring
36:45one another
36:45the strikers
36:46and the government
36:46for all he cares
36:47that sounds like
36:48ache
36:48yes
36:49well which brings
36:50me to the point
36:51of this visit
36:52Cajun
36:52now
36:54well we haven't
36:56always seen eye to eye
36:57but the strikes
36:59a serious business
37:00now you jolly well
37:02can't allow
37:03the miners to dictate
37:04to the country
37:05what it should do
37:06so you really
37:07must join us
37:08and Mrs. Cajun
37:10as well
37:11if you will
37:11well Chris
37:13what do you say
37:13well
37:16I don't care
37:19because I don't
37:20much hope
37:21I've little hope
37:22what the miners
37:23can do or the
37:23labour leaders
37:24though they can't
37:26if they try
37:26do much worse
37:28than those
37:28who've been running
37:28things up to now
37:29so you won't
37:34join us
37:34no
37:35that's Chris's answer
37:38trifle abrupt
37:39and I'm afraid
37:39I'm afraid
37:40I can't help
37:41the OMS
37:41you see
37:42I have another
37:44plan afoot
37:44oh really
37:45what's your plan
37:46why to do
37:47everything I can
37:48to hinder
37:49the OMS
37:49or such skunks
37:51as try to
37:51interfere with
37:51the strike
37:52I said
37:55you really
37:56you were born
38:16over there
38:1612 years ago
38:18yes
38:19I know
38:20he seemed
38:22troubled
38:23my boy
38:25the fruit
38:26of myself
38:27so cool
38:29so kind
38:31and sure
38:32and so
38:34stony cool
38:35troubled
38:36to a sudden
38:37queer
38:37brittle pity
38:39do you mind
38:40that I'm having
38:40another baby
38:41no
38:43but I didn't
38:50move
38:50didn't say
38:52a word
38:52at that strange
38:53embracing
38:54on the part
38:54of my son
38:55come on
39:01come on
39:01and may
39:08and tomorrow
39:09waited
39:09as our feet
39:11turned back
39:11quiet up
39:12the seggard road
39:13general situation
39:29section
39:30mr. aj cook
39:33miners leader
39:34speaking on
39:35sunday
39:35said
39:36let us show
39:38that we know
39:38how to maintain
39:39order
39:39we have instructed
39:41our men
39:42to do
39:43their own
39:44police work
39:45the minister
39:47yes he is
39:48why what's happened
39:49chock you're as
39:50white as a sheet
39:51they've gone to
39:51block the high
39:52second railway bridge
39:53who
39:53burn the spinners
39:54and one of the
39:55reporters
39:55in god's name
39:56why
39:56to prevent the
39:57trains the black lives
39:58are running
39:59for reaching beyond
39:59here
40:00when did they go
40:00ten minutes ago
40:01couldn't you
40:02stop them
40:02only just heard
40:03do it
40:04god
40:05let's give
40:06me police
40:06and arrest
40:06for all you
40:07stop that
40:07damn
40:08fool
40:08and they're
40:08half-witted
40:09ploy
40:10blowing up
40:10bridges
40:11right
40:11robert
40:12you have not
40:12to worry
40:13where did they
40:15get the explosives
40:16they feared it
40:17for the quarry
40:17they're only boys
40:19daft boys
40:20at that
40:33you've got a
40:34match
40:35we'll test a
40:35couple of sticks
40:36aye
40:36hear
40:37sorry
40:44what a minister's
40:47wife
40:48when i saw him
40:49go past
40:49no ten minutes
40:50ago
40:51fit sir
40:52hurry then
40:53do you think
40:53likely she's late
40:55for an appointment
40:56with young
40:56mawak
41:03oh god no
41:06in the name
41:08of god
41:08was that
41:08no idea
41:10do you think
41:11do you think
41:13like we should
41:13go and investigate
41:14you think
41:34you bloody fools
41:36get down
41:37oh
41:42it's all the bosses
41:46need to bring
41:46in the troops
41:47where's the rest
41:48of the dynamite
41:48robert
41:49robert
41:50there's a train
41:51coming
41:51you've got to
41:52stop it
41:53it's all right
41:59chris
41:59they did no more
42:00than test the dynamite
42:01get away home
42:06I'll hurt you
42:07your feet
42:08shows up
42:08we've spared
42:09you
42:09that was it
42:14chris
42:16chris
42:39it's
42:45else
42:46shh
42:48you mustn't
42:50move
42:50mum
42:50rest
42:53rest
42:55rest
42:58rest
43:00minister
43:13there's someone
43:14feet
43:15the policeman
43:16he wants a word
43:17with you
43:18who
43:20feet
43:21I'll seat
43:30I'll seat her
43:30sir
43:31and I have reason
43:46to believe
43:46Mr. Cahoon
43:47that you
43:48can tell me
43:48the names
43:49of those responsible
43:49for setting off
43:50the explosion
43:51what reason
43:52constable
43:53well
43:54you were seen
43:55with yon
43:55tin cronin
43:56hurrying through
43:57the square
43:57ten minutes before
43:58and and then
43:59I saw your wife
44:01five minutes later
44:02and then there was
44:03the explosion
44:03and have you
44:05any evidence
44:06beyond rumours
44:07and scandal
44:08to back your reasons
44:09eh
44:10have you any proof
44:12even that there
44:13was an explosion
44:14I heard it
44:15myself
44:15is that all
44:18oh and there's
44:19bumped grass
44:20in the lee
44:21of the brig
44:21caused by sparks
44:23from a train
44:23no doubt
44:24you'll have to do
44:25better than that
44:26constable
44:27good day
44:28why
44:30okay
44:49Thank you, Robert.
45:19I baptize thee in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
45:33May the Lord bless thee and keep thee.
45:49Night, with a setting of stars, all alone in the maytime dark.
46:11I knew it still may.
46:17There was a hiss of rain on the roof.
46:22Light rain.
46:23And all the house set in silence, but for that whisper of falling rain.
46:31I lay and suddenly knew the thing close.
46:41I finished a knowing of that hearing at all.
46:45The world cut off.
46:49I felt free and light, strung to a quivering point of impatience as I waited and waited.
46:57And the night went by.
47:02Ready and ready I waited.
47:07Near cried.
47:10Because the thing didn't come after all.
47:13And grew tired.
47:19And slept.
47:22And the thing drew back.
47:25And whomsoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
47:47Believest thou this?
47:52And she saith unto him,
47:55Yea, Lord,
47:57I believe that thou art the Christ,
48:01the Son of God,
48:03who should come into the world.
48:05Just you stop where you are, my manies.
48:14No further.
48:15Out of the way, Ogilvy.
48:16This is nae business of yours.
48:18If you bloody tinks are on your way to the manse,
48:20then it's my business.
48:23I heard you smashed in Joe Cronin's windows last night.
48:26Aye.
48:26And we've a mind to do the same to Cahoon's.
48:28Then you'll do it with a crooked skull.
48:31The minister's wife's lying up there, Gael.
48:33Who the hell cares?
48:36We've got wives and berns their own.
48:38What's to happen to them now the strike's collapsed and we're on the dole?
48:41The strike collapsed because your leaders were feared to the jail.
48:44They betrayed you and that's no the minister's fault.
48:47Is it no?
48:48Who egged us on to strike in the first place?
48:51Cahoon, that's who!
48:53Him safe and sound in his own damn job.
48:55Aye, and in his own damn job,
48:57he'd have found it a damn sight safer to have kept in with the gentry
49:00instead of risking his neck for dirt like you.
49:03To Helwell
49:06and Cronin
49:08and you Ogilvy.
49:15Come on, lads.
49:17We're on the way home.
49:18Yes, we were at Hamlin.
49:20Let's go.
49:21Okay.
49:21Come on.
49:22Come on.
49:31Yeah.
49:32Then we're on the way home.
49:34you're awake mum how are you feeling
50:02I'm fine else thanks to you
50:13it was grand of you to come oh definitely thanks your pardon a buddy mentioning
50:21Mick Boggs cousin in a man's that media had was fairly useless
50:27anyway I liked fine to come here instead of biding in ford and with the old man
50:34glunching at me and my bairn and how is your bairn fine mum and eggs you should see how
50:43it grows isn't it oh your pillows need sorting she was a fairly fusionist creator that made you
50:50you know there's scarce a potter of palm that's been thrift washed and god knows where she's hidden a baking tin
50:54it's all right else we can talk about babies without me starting to greet
51:00I'm more worried about the minister
51:05how's the strike going
51:09it's ended mum
51:11who won
51:13the minister says the government won
51:16he was angry
51:18he said the leaders had sold the strike to save their own skins
51:23that must have been a sore blow to him
51:26a sore blow to a lot of folk
51:29half the spinners are out of work
51:31all the cronins have been sacked and
51:34Ginny Grant's lost her job at the school
51:37else
51:41tell me
51:45was my baby born dead
51:50and
51:53was it a boy
51:56oh well
51:58tell me else
52:01I want to know
52:03I lived half an hour
52:07and the minister came up and baptized it
52:11Michael
52:12Michael
52:16it was a bunny bin
52:19tiny and quiet
52:22it yawned and blinked its eyes just a minute
52:27oh mum
52:30I shouldn't be telling you this
52:32but you should
52:34where is it buried?
52:41at the old kirk yard
52:43there was only me and the minister
52:46and John Muir
52:47the minister carried the coffin there
52:50and read the service
52:52right bunny did it
52:54if it wasn't that fool
52:56John Muir that stood by
52:57like a trumpet near blowing his nose
52:59and when the minister came to the bit about
53:04resurrection
53:05oh I don't mind the words
53:08I do
53:09I am the resurrection and the life
53:13he that believeth in me
53:16though he were dead
53:18yet shall he live
53:20aye
53:21aye
53:22and after he said that
53:25he didn't know what he was saying
53:28with his bear and you dead
53:30and the strike as well
53:32he said
53:33he said
53:36he said what else?
53:38he said
53:39and who shall believe?
53:46poor Robert
53:47I shouldn't be telling you this
53:51but oh
53:53you'll have to hurry and get well for him
53:56I climbed to the cames again
54:05after those weeks of the smell of medicines
54:08close fires
54:10and the pain that ran up and down me
54:13and played hide and seek with every sinew and bone that I had
54:22so up I went to sit and look from the high places there
54:26as Christ once had done with the devil for a guide
54:30idly I minded
54:34and smiled
54:35it came of being a minister's wife
54:39what had the devil said to Christ then?
54:45maybe
54:46just rest
54:48rest and have peace
54:52don't let them tear you to bits
54:56with their hates
54:57their cares
54:58and their loves
54:59your angers for them
55:02leave them
55:04and rest
55:07our hearts
55:09our hearts
55:10the
55:16without
55:20a
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