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"Are we to use the inch or the inch-an'-a-half nails?" asked Mowat, after a moment's pause. "Whichever you like, Tonal'. There iss plenty of both in the store, an' ye are as goot a judge o' these metters as I am myself. Just help yoursel', man; only see that the work is done well, for there iss a rough trup before us when we do git away.
"We will need two pit-saws," remarked the practical Orkney-man in a meditative tone. "No doubt, no doubt," returned MacSweenie, "and a grindstone too. Do you remember what that man Nazinred said when he came here on his last trup, that the Indians about his country would be fery pleased to see traders settle among them?
The wife said he had a strong sled with him, an' the best team o' dogs in the camp. Do you think the boat will need a new false keel? I was lookin' at it, an' it seemed to me rather far gone for a long trup." "I will go an' hev a look at it, Tonal'. But I hev been wonderin' that Mozwa, who seemed so fond o' his frund, should hev let him start away all by his lone on such a trup."
Half the battalion hail from the Loch Lomond district, and of the rest there is hardly a man who has not indulged, during some Trades' Holiday or other, in "a pleesure trup" upon its historic but inexpensive waters. "You'll tak' the high road and I'll tak' the low road " On we swing, full-throated. An English battalion, halted at a cross-road to let us go by, gazes curiously upon us.
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