But he was delightfully inconsistent when
confronted with particulars. In conversation with him one night after
one of the meetings, when he had been specially hard upon the ignorant
and godless, I innocently changed the subject to Billy Breen, whom
Geordie had taken to his shack since the night of the League. He was
very proud of Billy's success in the fight against whisky, the credit of
which he divided unevenly between Mrs. Mavor and himself.
'He's fair daft aboot her,' he explained to me, 'an' I'll no' deny but
she's a great help, ay, a verra conseederable asseestance; but, man, she
doesna ken the whusky, an' the inside o' a man that's wantin' it. Ay,
puir buddie, she diz her pairt, an' when ye're a bit restless an thrawn
aifter yer day's wark, it's like a walk in a bonnie glen on a simmer
eve, with the birds liltin' aboot, tae sit in yon roomie and hear her
sing; but when the night is on, an' ye canna sleep, but wauken wi' an'
awfu' thurst and wi' dreams o' cosy firesides, and the bonnie sparklin'
glosses, as it is wi' puir Billy, ay, it's then ye need a man wi' a guid
grup beside ye.
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