Kilmeny of the Orchard 
     
    
   
   
    
     reckon it’s likely he does, seeing that 
     
     that’s exactly what he is. You’ve hit the 
     
     nail square on the head. Italyun, yes, sir! 
     
     Rather too much so, I’m thinking, for 
     
     decent folks’ taste.” 
     
    

    
     “ How has it happened that an Italian 
     
     boy with a Scotch name is living in a place 
     
     like Lindsay? ” 
     
    

    
     “ Well, Master, it was this way. About 
     
     twenty—two years ago—was it twenty- 
     
     two, Mother or twenty—four? Yes, it was 
     
     twenty-two— ’twas the same year our Jim 
     
     was born and he’d have been twenty-two 
     
     if he’d lived, poor little fellow. Well, 
     
     Master, twenty-two years ago a couple 
     
     of Italian pack peddlers came along and 
     
     called at the Gordon place. The country 
     
     was swarming with them then. I useter 
     
     set the dog on one every day on an 
     
     average. 
     
    

    
     “ Well, these peddlers were man and 
     
     wife, and the woman took sick up there 
     
     at the Gordon place, and Janet Gordon 
     
     took her in and nursed her. A baby was 
     
    

    
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