"Aye," said Sutherland. "Yon's a piper worth playing against."
And very brave and gallant young Cameron looked as Tim swung his team
through the fence and up to the platform under the trees where the
great ones of the people were standing in groups. They were all there,
Patterson the M.P.P., and Dr. Kane the Opposition candidate, Reeve
Robertson, for ten years the Municipal head of his county, Inspector
Grant, a little man with a massive head and a luminous eye, Patterson's
understudy and generally regarded as his successor in Provincial
politics, the Reverend Harper Freeman, Methodist minister, tall
and lank, with shrewd kindly face and a twinkling eye, the Reverend
Alexander Munro, the Presbyterian minister, solid and sedate, slow to
take fire but when kindled a very furnace for heat. These, with their
various wives and daughters, such as had them, and many others less
notable but no less important, constituted a sort of informal reception
committee under Fatty Freeman's general direction and management.
And here and there and everywhere crowds of young men and maidens,
conspicuous among the latter Isa MacKenzie and her special friends,
made merry with each other, as brave and gallant a company of sturdy
sun-browned youths and bonnie wholesome lassies as any land or age could
ever show.
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