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the kitchen to give orders anent something that had come into his mind; and perceiving Tibby, his old friend, so comfortably engaged, he, without speaking a word, seized her by the neck with one hand, and by the shoulder with the other, and hurrying her out at the back-door into the yard, he flung her with all his might, on a dunghill. "Wha the devil bad you come into my house, and eat up the meat that was made for others?" cried he, in a demoniac voice, choaking with rage; and then he swore a terrible, oath, which I do not choose to set down, that "if he found her again at such employment, he would cut her throat and fling her to the dogs."
Poor Tibby was astounded beyond the power of utterance, or even of rising from the place where he had thrown down, until lifted by two of the servant-maids who tried to comfort her as they supported her part of the way home: and bitterly did they blame their master, saying, it would have been a shame to any one who had the feelings of a man, to do such an act; but as for their master, he scarcely had the feelings of a beast. Tibby never opened her mouth neither to curse, blame, nor complain, but went on he
