40 WILD DICK ANP 04 There was no little confusion and surprise, when, a few Sabbaths before, the Reverend Air. Little published the bans of marriage, between Mr. Richard Wild and Miss Margaret Lamson. ^Margaret was a pious girl; and, if it were sinful to be pretty, no girl in the parish had more to answer for than Margaret Lamson ; though she was altogether too poor to think of a navarino or a salmon-colored silk. I need not say, that Parson Little performed the marriage ceremony. When, after the service, he went up to congratulate old Sukey, “ Ay,” said she, holding up the old crutch, “he will always be a stay and a staff to me, and he always has been, and nobody knows it better than you, Robin—the Lord forgive me, but I am getting old, and can’t help looking upon ye both, as my boys.” The old woman is still living, at the age of eighty-nine. She retains her faculties surprisingly; and may be seen every morning, at the front chamber window of the Squire’s house, with her knitting in her hands. There is a common bond among all the vir
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