"We put ’em all on for tea," she told Aileen on the day following the great occasion of the finishing of the work.  "I had the kitchen very dossy, an’ a vawse o’ flowers on the table, an’ there we were when Dad came in.  He just looked at us careless-like, an’ then he seemed to take notice, an’ he stared an’ stared.  An’ of course the kids giggled.  Then he said, ’Well!’ just like that, an’ stopped, like as if he hadn’t any more ideas.  An’ he kep’ on starin’.  At last he says, ’I suppose this is Mrs. Macleod’s doin’?’  An’ I says, ’Yes.’  ’Who made ’em all?’ he says.  An’ I told him.  An’ he says, ’Well, I’m proud of you, ’Poss—an’ all my kids!’  An’ he got up an’ went out.  An’ presently he come back—an’ if you’ll b’lieve me, Missus, he’d acshally gorn an’ put on a clean shirt!"