“That nicht a child might understand

The deil had business on his hand.”

“That nicht a child might understand The deil had business on his hand.”

And if people sit up all night in lone places on the hills, with Bibles and tremulous psalms, they will be apt to hear some of the most fiendish noises in the world; the wind will beat on doors and dance upon roofs for them, and make the hills howl around their cottage with a clamour like the judgment-day.