d by the next ship.

She was a hearty, healthy, rosy girl of fourteen, as rough as her native
wilds, with a mind so free from guile that she gave a literal
interpretation to everything she saw and heard.

In Canada Betty would have been considered very green. In Scotland she
was regarded as a truthful, simple-hearted girl. A few weeks after the
baby was born, some ladies called to see Mrs. ----. The weather was very
warm, and one of them requested the neat black-eyed girl in waiting to
fetch her a glass of water. Betty obeyed with a smiling face; but oh,
horror of horrors, she brought the clear crystal to the lady guest in
her red fist.

The lady smiled, drank the water, and returned the tumbler to the
black-eyed Hebe, who received it with a profound curtsy.

When the visitors were gone, Mrs. ----, who was very fond of her young
clanswoman, called her to her side, and said, "Betty, let me never see
you bring anything into my room in your bare hands. Always put what you
are asked for on to a waiter or an ashat."

The girl promised obedience.

The very next day some strange ladies called; and after congratulating
Mrs. ---- on her speedy recovery, they expressed an earnest wish to see
the "_dear little baby_."

Mrs. ---- rang the bell. Betty appeared. "Is the baby awake?"

"Yes, my leddy."

"Just bring him in to show these ladies."

Betty darted into the nursery, only too proud of the mission, and
telling nurse to "mak' the young laird brau," she rushed to the kitchen,
and demanded of the cook a "muckle big ashat."

"What do you want with the dish?" said the English cook.

"That's my ain business," quoth Betty, taking the enormous china platter
from the cook's hand, and running back to the nursery. "Here, Mistress
Norman, here is ain big enough to hand him in, at ony rate. Pray lay his
wee duds smooth, an' I'll tak' him in, for I hear the bell."

"Are ye duff, lass? Wud ye put the bairn on the ashat?"

"Ay, mistress tauld me to bring what she asked me for on an ashat. Sure
ye wud no ha' me disobey her?"

"Na, na," said the nurse, laughing, and suspecting some odd mistake. "Ye
sal ha' it yer ain way."

And she carefully laid the noble babe upon the dish, and went before to
open the door that led to Mrs. ----'s chamber.

Betty entered as briskly as her unwieldy burden would permit, and with
glowing cheeks, and eyes glistening with honest delight, presented her
human offering in the huge dish to the oldes