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"But how in the world did you make such awful sounds?" "I'm thinkin' it's the bit squeakie ye'll be meanin'?" he inquired. "Yes; how did you do it?" "Oh, it's juist the pipes!" he answered, patting them affectionately, "will I show ye the noo?"
"Indeed, they told me it was haunted, but I determined to see for myself." "Weel?" "Well, I am glad to find it haunted by nothing worse than a wandering Scots piper." The Highlander smiled his wry smile, and taking out a snuff-box, inhaled a pinch, regarding me the while. "Ye're the first as ever stayed after they'd heard the first bit squeakie, tae find out if 't were a real bogle or no."
So, wishfu' tae keep this bit hoosie tae mysel' seein' 't was haunted as they ca' it I juist kep' up the illusion on account o' trampers, wanderin' gypsies, an' sic-like dirty tykes. Eh! but 'twas fair graund tae see 'em rinnin' awa' as if the de'il were after them, spierin' back o'er their shoulders, an' a' by reason of a bit squeakie o' the pipes, here. An' so, sir, ye hae it."
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