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"
There
’
s
a
judgment
preparin
’
,
"
said
Peter
,
"
but
whatna
kind
o
’
judgment
I
daurna
guess
.
Certes
,
it
’
s
no
canny
.
"
"
I
’
ve
heard
o
’
nane
ailin
’
,
but
there
’
s
seeckness
comin
’
.
I
can
smell
it
in
the
air
,
and
the
brute
beasts
can
smell
it
,
for
they
’
re
sweir
to
come
near
Woodilee
.
There
’
s
no
a
tod
or
a
maukin
on
a
’
the
Hill
o
’
Deer
.
D
’
ye
no
find
a
queer
savour
in
the
countryside
,
Peter
?
There
’
s
wind
enough
to
shake
the
saughs
,
but
the
warld
smells
like
the
inside
o
’
a
press
-
bed
when
the
door
’
s
steekit
.
Oh
for
a
snell
,
dirlin
’
blast
!
There
’
s
something
rotten
and
stawsome
and
unearthly
about
the
blue
lift
and
the
saft
air
.
It
’
s
like
withered
floo
’
ers
on
a
midden
.
If
there
’
s
nae
seeckness
yet
,
there
’
s
seeckness
on
the
road
.
I
maun
awa
’
in
and
see
to
Ailie
,
for
this
morn
she
was
complaining
o
’
a
sair
heid
.
"
Two
days
later
the
child
of
a
cotter
at
Mirehope
returned
from
school
in
the
manse
kitchen
,
and
to
his
mother
’
s
amazement
beat
his
head
against
the
door
.
He
fell
asleep
on
the
wedder
’
s
skin
beside
the
fire
,
and
when
he
was
wakened
for
his
supper
his
cheeks
were
flaming
and
he
seemed
to
have
difficulty
with
his
speech
.
He
was
put
with
the
rest
into
the
box
which
was
the
children
’
s
bed
,
and
all
night
filled
it
with
his
cries
,
so
that
the
others
sought
peace
on
the
floor
.
In
the
morning
his
face
and
throat
were
swollen
,
his
eyes
were
sightless
,
and
he
struggled
terribly
for
breath
.
Before
noon
he
was
dead
.
In
this
way
came
the
plague
to
Woodilee
.
Its
coming
was
realized
in
an
instant
,
for
the
sinister
weather
had
prepared
the
people
for
calamity
.
Before
the
dark
the
rumour
of
the
breaking
out
of
the
pest
was
in
the
uttermost
sheilings
.
With
it
went
the
word
that
Peter
Pennecuik
had
sickened
,
and
that
another
child
at
Mirehope
and
one
of
the
Chasehope
ewe
-
milkers
were
down
with
it
.
.
.
.
Next
day
the
place
was
a
beleaguered
city
.
Johnnie
Dow
,
the
packman
,
hearing
the
news
at
Cauldshaw
,
diverted
his
round
to
Kirk
Aller
,
though
thirty
pounds
Scots
were
owing
to
him
in
Woodilee
.
The
roads
were
blocked
as
if
Montrose
’
s
kerns
commanded
them
.
As
it
was
winter
-
time
there
was
little
work
on
hand
,
and
even
that
little
was
not
done
.
A
Sabbath
hush
fell
on
the
glen
,
people
shut
their
doors
and
sat
within
at
their
prayers
,
and
that
best
seeding
-
ground
for
plague
,
a
lively
terror
,
was
amply
prepared
.
Peter
Pennecuik
died
in
eight
hours
.
There
was
no
heart
in
the
man
,
and
in
sickness
his
command
of
pious
phrases
fell
away
from
him
,
and
he
passed
out
of
life
in
a
whimpering
misery
.
It
was
not
an
edifying
death
-
bed
for
one
who
had
been
a
notable
professor
.
But
very
soon
Peter
was
forgotten
-
-
for
he
was
an
old
man
and
ripe
for
his
end
-
-
as
the
young
and
strong
were
,
one
by
one
,
struck
down
.
Amos
Ritchie
’
s
wife
,
Ailie
,
followed
-
-
the
less
to
be
wondered
at
,
for
she
had
always
been
frail
.
But
when
Jess
Morison
at
Chasehope
-
foot
,
dark
-
browed
,
high
-
coloured
,
and
not
yet
twenty
,
swooned
as
she
drew
water
at
the
well
,
and
died
in
delirium
before
evening
,
fear
in
the
parish
became
panic
.
The
young
herd
at
Windyways
,
the
trimmest
lad
in
the
glen
,
and
the
miller
’
s
man
,
who
looked
as
gnarled
as
an
oak
and
as
strong
as
a
mill
-
wheel
,
followed
.
But
the
tragedy
was
the
children
.
Two
of
them
were
struck
down
for
each
grown
-
up
person
,
and
perished
with
the
speed
of
plucked
flowers
.
.
.
.
It
was
another
kind
of
peril
from
that
which
old
folk
remembered
in
the
year
’
10
,
for
no
pox
attended
it
nor
any
of
the
usual
sores
.
The
ordinary
first
symptom
was
a
blinding
headache
and
a
high
fever
;
then
came
a
swelling
of
the
throat
and
glands
and
a
quick
delirium
.
But
in
many
cases
there
was
no
outward
swelling
;
the
mischief
seemed
to
descend
straightway
to
the
lungs
and
produce
a
severe
haemorrhage
.
In
such
cases
there
was
no
final
delirium
;
the
patient
died
with
clear
mind
and
little
bodily
pain
in
an
extreme
languor
.
The
first
type
commonly
seized
the
young
and
full
-
bodied
;
children
and
old
folk
followed
,
as
a
rule
,
the
second
course
.
But
both
were
fatal
:
in
a
week
out
of
fifty
-
nine
smitten
,
fifty
-
nine
were
dead
.
There
was
no
doctor
to
be
had
in
all
the
countryside
.
The
leech
at
Kirk
Aller
,
sent
for
by
David
,
refused
to
come
within
a
mile
of
Woodilee
,
and
the
old
women
,
the
usual
medical
authorities
of
the
village
,
had
nothing
but
senseless
concoctions
and
-
-
in
secret
-
-
more
senseless
charms
.
Presently
even
these
were
forgotten
,
and
the
place
lay
in
a
stupor
of
fear
under
a
visitation
from
Heaven
.
Cottages
which
the
pest
had
entered
were
,
by
popular
consent
,
shut
to
the
world
,
so
that
they
became
a
hot
-
bed
of
infection
for
the
other
inmates
.
A
man
who
had
sickness
in
his
dwelling
dare
not
show
his
face
in
the
street
except
under
cover
of
night
.
There
was
no
neighbourly
assistance
asked
or
given
.
The
members
of
a
stricken
family
had
to
conduct
their
life
in
a
dreadful
isolation
,
till
they
too
sickened
;
there
were
shuttered
dwellings
where
life
was
slowly
blotted
out
,
and
the
village
only
learned
that
the
end
had
come
for
all
by
the
fact
that
the
chimney
ceased
to
smoke
.
.
.
.
At
first
an
attempt
was
made
to
bury
the
dead
decently
,
the
remaining
members
of
a
household
undertaking
the
task
,
but
the
spread
of
the
pestilence
soon
made
this
impossible
.
