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With a fund contributed for the purpose, wardens were hired and duly commissioned. As previously stated, one of those wardens was shot dead in cold blood by a plume hunter. The task of guarding swamp rookeries from the attacks of money-hungry desperadoes to whom the accursed plumes were worth their weight in gold, is a very chancy proceeding.
Elspeth was unco clever in her young days, as I can mind right weel, but there was aye a word o' her no being that chancy. Ane suldna speak ill o' the dead mair by token, o' ane's cummer and neighbour but there was queer things said about a leddy and a bairn or she left the Craigburnfoot.
'And you know, Miss Lucy, you're so tall, you can stand them chancy things' her little friend had said to her, when she had wondered whether the check might not be too large. And yet only with a passing wonder. She could not honestly say that her dress had cost her much thought then or at any other time. She had been content to be very simple, to admire other girls' cleverness.
The shades of evening were growing thicker around us as my conductor finished his long narrative with this moral 'Ye see, birkie, it is nae chancy thing to tak a stranger traveller for a guide, when you are in an uncouth land.
But she went, as it was, fancy free, and there is no tinder so inflammable as the imagination of a pretty country girl of sixteen. One day she went out with her easy-going aunt Abigail to buy ribbons, the Chancy Creek invoices not supplying the requirements of Jacksonville society.
While I was telling of this, the beast stepped from his concealment, trotted a short distance upstream and turned to climb a little ridge parallel to that by which we were descending. About halfway up he stopped, staring in our direction, his head erect, the slight ruff under his neck standing forward. He was a good four hundred yards away. B., who wanted him, decided the shot too chancy.
Like his employments, his earnings were chancy and various, ranging between a shilling to five shillings a-week, including gratuities, which his conceit prompted him to call "helps," with a view to avoid the imputation of living upon alms a name, in the Scotch language "awmous," which did not sound agreeably in the ears of Geordie Willison.
Nor am I satisfied that this Monsieur Duchemin came by the document fairly confound his impudence! If he hadn't put me on honour, tacitly, I'd not hesitate an instant about informing the police." "Rather chancy course to take in this business, what?"
And Tamara bent down so that he should not see the tears which gathered in her eyes, while she answered softly, "Thank you very much, Jack; but no one is ever sure of being happy." And even though Lord Courtray's perceptions were rather thick he wondered at her speech it upset him. "Look here, Tamara," he said, "don't you do it then if it is a chancy sort of thing.
Somehow or another the Money you win at Cards I would never touch Dice, which are too chancy, liable to be Sophisticated, and, besides, sure to lead to Brawling, Stabbing, and cracking of Crowns this Money, gotten over Old Nick's back, I say, never seems to do a Man any Good.
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