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At that she took her little stool and sat on the grave beside him.
But Mr. Brown bit his teeth in his pipe, limped away, and stormed
at his daft helper laddie, who didn't appear to know a violet from
a burdock.
Ah! who can doubt that, so deeply were scene and word graven on his
memory, Bobby often lived again the hour of his bereavement, and
heard Auld Jock's last words:
"Gang--awa'--hame--laddie!"
Homeless on earth, gude Auld Jock had gone to a place prepared for
him. But his faithful little dog had no home. This sacred spot was
merely his tarrying place, where he waited until such a time as
that mysterious door should open for him, perchance to an equal
sky, and he could slip through and find his master.
On the morning of the day when the Grand Leddy came Bobby watched
the holiday crowd gather on Heriot's Hospital grounds. The mothers
and sisters of hundreds of boys were there, looking on at the great
match game of cricket. Bobby dropped over the wall and scampered
about, taking a merry part in the play. When the pupils' procession
was formed, and the long line of grinning and nudging laddies
marched in to service in the chapel and dinner in the hall, he was
set up over the kirkyard wall, hundreds of hands were waved to him,
and voices called back: "Fareweel, Bobby!" Then the time-gun boomed
from the Castle, and the little dog trotted up for his dinner and
nap under the settle and his daily visit with Mr.
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