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It will be three years since he will be coming on the shanties with me, and from the day that he left his mother's door, till he came back again, never once did he fail me in his duty in the camp, or on the river, or in the town, where it was fery easy to be forgetting. And the boys would be telling me of the times that he would be keeping them out of those places.

You will not care for speerits, but I am fery goot at making tea." Marget was not as other women, and she spoke at once. "Maister Campbell, ye will believe that I hev come in the love of God, and because we hev baith been afflickit. I had ae son, and he is gone; ye had a dochter, and she is gone. A' ken where George is, and am sateesfied. A' doot sairly yir sorrow is deeper than mine."

But Shames said something to me, what-e-ver." "Just so; I forgot," continued Archie. "Well, McGregor said to the captain, `What would you think if we wass to sit still an' co into the pictur'?" "Oo, ay; that was just it, an' fery like him too," said the skipper, laughing at Archie's imitation, though he failed to recognise the similarity to his own drawling and nasal tones.

He hastened to assure Waverley, therefore, with more words than he usually employed, that he had 'keepit ta sidier roy haill, and that he wasna a plack the waur since the fery moment when his honour forbad her to gie him a bit clamhewit wi' her Lochaber- axe.

"We want you to play. There is a lady here who heard you in Paris quite recently she admires you immensely. Won't you come and be introduced to her?" Herr Machtenklinken paused, and a smile softened his hitherto angry countenance. "You are fery goot, Mr. Lofelace," he remarked "and I would do moch for you but her ladyshib understands me not she has offend me it is better I should take my leave."

It stood so deep in the water that only the upper windows were visible. The chimneys and roofs of some of the outhouses formed, with the main building and a few tree-tops, a small Archipelago. "You are fery kind, Mr Ruvnshaw," said Angus from an upper window, beneath which the canoe floated.

It could not pe without ta sem fathers, and ta sem chief." "He wad say it was 'cause we war a' o' ae bluid 'cause we had a' ae father." "Oh yes, no toubt! We aal come from ta same first paarents; put tat will be a fery long way off, pefore ta clans cot tokether. It 'll not pe holding fery well now, my son. Tat waas pefore ta Cawmills."

She should know somet'ing of biology, and be fery brave, so t'at she may not be frightened, but may understand how t'e vonderful gift is to come to her; and t'at is you. She should not be already beautiful, lest t'e change be less convincing. Yes, you are t'e voman for t'e test.

"Hooiver, shentlemen," he added, "if ye wunna tak it here's wushin' your fery coot health!" Raising the glass, he drained it without winking, as if the contents had been water, smacked his lips and put the bottle away.

"Quite right, my boy, quite right; though I must say I would like to wait till a real munister comes out; for although Mr Sutherland iss a fery goot man, an' an elder too, he iss not chust exactly a munister, you know, as I have said before. But have it your own way, Tan. If my little lass is willin', old Tuncan McKay won't stand in your way."