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And, yes, that large red hood, calash, that you wore the first day you arrived at the fort," his ready smile flickered, "on an understanding so little pleasing to your taste. Go get them on, and meet me at the northwestern bastion." The young soldier, Daniel Eske, still standing guard in the block-house tower, looked out on a scene without incident.

The young sentry, Daniel Eske, no one else was permitted at these times to stand guard in this block-house tower, noted this, with the usual maneuver of Mrs. MacLeod's escape through the embrasure, and he was filled with ire.

These reporters magnified the number of the enemy to an incredible amount. Wallace was at no loss in comprehending how much to believe in this panic; but determining, whether great or small the power of his adversary, to intercept him at Roslyn, he sent to Cummin and to Fraser, the two commanders in the beaten and dispersed armies, to rendezvous on the banks of the Eske.

Segrave was taken, and forty English knights besides. The green borders of the Eske were dyed red with Southron blood; and the enemy on all sides were calling for quarter, when, of a sudden, the cry of "Havoc and St. George!" issued from the adjoining hill. Terror struck to many a Scottish heart. The Southrons who were just about giving up their arms, leaped upon their feet.

Donegal, August 1st. No. 56. Donegal improves on acquaintance. At first dull, dreary, and disappointing, a more extended examination reveals much that is interesting. The river Eske runs through the town, rippling over a rocky bed of limestone like the Dee at Llangollen.

In Eske, or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or July's pride; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight or matin prime. All the members of the Wharton family laid their heads on their pillows that night, with a foreboding of some interruption to their ordinary quiet.

The landlord of the Arran Hotel in that town offers the Eske at half-a-crown a day, but in Ballyshannon you must pay four pounds a week and give up all the take except two. Salmon are scarce all over Ireland this year. Three English fishers on the Erne shared the universal bad luck, for in three days they had only captured one five-pounder. The unusual drought has made the water low.

Every village and solitary cot seemed recently deserted; and through an awful solitude they took their rapid way, till the towers of Roslyn Castle hailed them as a beacon from amidst the wooded heights of the northern Eske. "There," cried Ramsay, pointing to the embattled rock, "stands the fortress of my forefathers! It must this day be made famous by the actions performed before its walls!"

At last, the boy promised that if he gave him the hat none of his descendants should ever want. Brok gave the hat to the boy; but as he went away he said, 'But you shall never have sons, only daughters. So Eske Brok was the last of his name." "That boy must have been a Dværg," said Hardy. "Quite as probable as the story," said the Pastor.

Sitting together in the firelight on winter nights, while the peat fire was burning on the floor, and the wind, sweeping across Lough Eske, went wailing round the castle walls and sighing in the leafless trees, the boy would often get his father to tell him stories of the country-side.