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"He's camped dead beat on the State line, all right, Wayland," said the irate old frontiersman as they mounted their ponies. "He'll have at least some scars to prove his story, but A'm no thinkin' he'll boast round showin' them marks o' glory! 'Tis some satisfaction for my thirst back in the Desert."
"What was the rookus last night?" he asked, indifferently. Then, suddenly, his eye fell upon the sorrel that snipped grass at the end of a lariat rope near the picketed black, and he leaped to his feet. "Where'd you get that horse?" he exclaimed sharply. "It's Fatty's! There's the reins he busted when he snorted loose!" Again the half-breed grinned. "A'm bor' dat hoss for com' 'long wit' you.
Thrice it was done, Drumsheugh ever bringing up colder water from the spring, and twice MacLure was silent; but after the third time there was a gleam in his eye. "We're haudin' oor ain; we're no bein' maistered, at ony rate; mair a' canna say for three oors. "We 'ill no need the water again, Drumsheugh; gae oot and tak a breath o' air; a'm on gaird masel."
It'll be a matter o' some hundreds a year i' Philip's pocket. 'There'll be Fosters i' th' background, as one may say, to take t' biggest share on t' profits, said Bell. 'Ay, ay, that's but as it should be, for I reckon they'll ha' to find t' brass the first, my lass! said he, turning to Sylvia. 'A'm fain to tak' thee in to t' town next market-day, just for thee t' see 't.
"But you won't forget the magistracy, Sir Thomas? A'm dreaming of it every night. A' think that a'm seated upon a bench with five or six other magistrates along with me, and you can't imagine the satisfaction I feel in sending those poor vermin that are going about in a state of disloyalty and starvation to the stocks or the jail.
A' hinna time tae wait for dinner; gie me some cheese an' cake in ma haund, and Jess 'ill tak a pail o' meal an' water. "'Fee; a'm no wantin' yir fees, man; wi' that boxy ye dinna need a doctor; na, na, gie yir siller tae some puir body, Maister Hopps, an' he was doon the road as hard as he cud lick."
It's one o' young Master Taunton's Lubricatos an' A'm smokin' it for an endurance test they're no' so bad, remembering the inexperience an' youth o' ma wee frien' " Blackie turned. "Tam," he said shortly, "I'm just worried sick about those fellows and I wish "
"A' can hardly believe ma ears, Jess, an' the Sabbath tae; their verra jidgment hes gane frae the fouk o' Drumtochty. "They've heard about Saunders, a'm thinkin', wumman, and they're pleased we brocht him roond; he's fairly on the mend, ye ken, noo. "A' never expeckit the like o' this, though, and it wes juist a wee thingie mair than a' cud hae stude.
"An old man's broodings," he ruminated. "I'd call 'em D. T.'s," muttered Brydges. "Don't fear for my bones on the trail." He came back from his reverie as from a journey. "A'm the old breed that doesn't break. 'Tis you young brittle fellows all bred to pace and speed and style needs look to y'r goin's. Which way do A turn at the foot of the Ridge? One two three A see four lights.
But as she was looking for the place Sandy grunted forth stubbornly: "A'm no wantin' ony scones the nicht, so ye maun na fetch them." And Peter piped out, "Trusterday, ain't it, Miss Peggie?" "Yes, dear. Now shall we go on with the story?" She had read to where the rat was demanding the passport when she recognized the President's step outside the door.
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