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Line 805: 'Ay, if it's the Lord's will, Jamie, but 'am gey dune noo, an Hendry's fell worn too.'<br> Jamie, the boy that he was, said 'Dinna speak like that, mother,' and Jess again put her hand on his head.<br> ' Fine I ken, Jamie,' she said ''"at all my days on this earth, be they short or lang, I've you for a staff to lean on.'''"<br> Ah, many years have gone since then, but if Jamie be living now he has still those words to swallow.<br> By and by Leeby went ben for the Bible, and put it into Hendry's hands. He slowly turned over the leaves to his favourite chapter, the fourteenth of John's Gospel. Always, on eventful occasions, did Hendry turn to the fourteenth of John.<br>

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