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"Yow, lad, yow. Why, you arn't big enew to carry a goon; and as for sailing, do you think a ship's like a punt, and shoved along wi' a pole!" "Never mind," grumbled Tom. "I'm not going to stop here and be suspected for nothing." "Nay, nay, don't you lads talk nonsense." "It's no nonsense, Hicky," said Dick bitterly. "I've made up my mind to go." "Nay, nay, I tell thee. Thou wean't goo, lads."
It fair paralised baith o' them, when they saw Sandy comin' burst in on them wi' his black tile, his white goon, his umberell an' bag, an' the denner bell. "P'leece, p'leece," roared the captain an' his wife an' Sandy oot at the door. Awa' alang a passage he gaed, fleein' like a huntit tod. I heard him as gin he'd been doon in the very bowels o' the earth cryin', "Bawbie, Bawbie!
"I joost caught a blink of 'em as they went off, and I let 'em hev the whole charge o' my goon." "A bullet?" said Tom huskily. "Nay, lad; swan-shot. I'd been out after the wild-geese at the end of the bit o' reed-bed here, when I see a light wheer there couldn't be no light, and I roon back and see what they'd done, and let fly at 'em." "And hit them, Dave?" said Dick. "Nay, lad, I can't say.
In a few moments the lynx went back to the venison, and began eating it voraciously, only stopping to snarl when the young men spoke or moved. The fire was very low, the room had been well aired, and the two were thinly clad. Before long their teeth were chattering. "Eef Ah can get heem away from door, Ah'll roon an' get goon an' feex heem!"
There was a licht burnin' in the room beyond, an' I could just catch a glimpse o' what seemed tae me like a row o' swords stuck alang the side o' the wa', when the general stepped oot and shut the door behind him. He was dressed in a dressin' goon, wi' a red smokin'-cap on his heid, and a pair o' slippers wi' the heels cut off and the taes turned up.
Solmes at the Ranger's Lodge, a mile distant, said to her old husband: "Thou'rt a bad ma-an, Stephen, to leave thy goon about lwoaded, and the vary yoong boy handy to any mischief. Can'st thou not bide till there coom time for the lwoadin' of it?" Said old Stephen sharply, "Gwun, wench? There be no gwun. 'Tis a roifle!
"'He 'ill be in his goon and bands, says I, 'if that's what ye mean, for the head o' him is fu' o' maggots, and nae man can tell what he wull be at next. "'Mister Soutar said that he would wear his kilt, and that it would be an interesting spectacle. Ye 'ill better come awa hame, and sall, if a' hed kent what wes tae happen, a' wud hae taken him aff below ma oxter.
But gin I war up, see gin I wadna gie ye a new goon, an' that wad be something to make ye like yersel' again. I'm affrontet wi' mysel' 'at I had been sic a brute o' a man to ye. But ye maun forgie me noo, for I do believe i' my hert 'at the Lord's forgien me. Gie me anither kiss, lass. God be praised, and mony thanks to you!
Ralph fell to vigorously, and the care that had been bestowed by Mr. Penfold in securing a bedroom and ordering supper for him greatly raised him in the boy's estimation; and he looked forward with warmer anticipations than he had hitherto done to his visit to him. As goon as he had finished he went off to bed, and in a few minutes was sound asleep.
I hope you can prove yourself innocent." The charge was so awful and unexpected that she sank, paie and faint, into a chair, and the appearance of the terror-stricken girl was taken as evidence of guilt. But she goon rallied sufficiently to say, with great earnestness, "Indeed, sir, I am innocent." "Assertion is not proof. Of course you are willing, then, to be searched?"
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