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Callender, dropping rigidly into a chair, and clasping his hands over the crutch of a shepherd-like staff. "Ye mind, perhaps, that ye conveyed to me, osteensibly at the request of James Gow, a certain sum of money, for which I gave ye a good and sufficient guarantee.
Remembering how his first appearance had fluttered this dovecote and awakened a severe suspicion in the minds of the two principals, he had discarded his usual fashionable attire and elegantly fitting garments for a rough, homespun suit, supposed to represent a homely agriculturist, but which had the effect of transforming him into an adorable Strephon, infinitely more dangerous in his rustic shepherd-like simplicity.
Has the gentle, shepherd-like swain from the country got a temper of his own?" "Of course I have," cried the boy angrily. "Why don't you let it lie quiet, and not wake it up by doing that!" "Is the temper like a surly dog, then?" cried Andrew, laughing mockingly. "Will it bite?" "Yes, if you tease it too much," snapped out Frank. "Oh, horrible!
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