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"I mean," replied Abe with great earnestness, "that I'm gooin to turn collier." "Nay, niver, lad!" cried his wife in dismay. "Why, it's only for a bit till things brighten up in aar loine, and then thaa knows I can get wark at th' mill agean." Poor Sally wept in earnest now; it was a shock to her feelings that she was not prepared for.
At supper everybody talked to me about my health, and my approaching stay in the country. This gave M. an opportunity to mention a delightful house near the Aar; "but," he added, "it is not to be let for less than six months." "If I like it," I replied, "and am free to leave it when I please, I will willingly pay the six months' rent in advance." "There is a fine hall in it."
He had brought the poor prodigal to the top of a lane leading down to his father's house; there he stood, covered in rags and dirt, his head bare and his shoes gone; he is just timidly stopping at the corner of the lane debating whether he shall go on or turn back, when at that moment out comes the old man to look up and down the road; he sees that bit of human misery at the lane end, and in an instant recognizes him as his son, "'Mother! mother! exclaims th' owd man, 'quick! quick! here's aar Jack standing at top o' th' loin.
Charteris and Bird were in charge of the tent, and tell the same blessed story of nightly effort and nightly success. =Experiences at Arundel and Colesberg.= From De Aar, Naauwport, and Arundel we have before us several graphic letters from the Rev. M.F. Crewdson, late of Johannesburg. Mr. Crewdson is a Wesleyan minister, and for conspicuous service on the field was appointed acting chaplain.
I remember also that the hall called Aar was a long house roofed with sods, on which grew grass and sometimes little white flowers, and that inside of it cows were tied up. We lived in a place beyond, that was separated off from the cows by balks of rough timber.
The reader may remember that we started post haste from Cape Town, and, having the good fortune to pass along the southern frontier from De Aar to Stormberg by the last train before the interruption of traffic, had every hope of reaching Ladysmith while its investment was incomplete.
Both of these had accompanied Hugi in his ascension of the Finsteraarhorn in 1828, and both were therefore thoroughly familiar with all the dangers of Alpine climbing. The lower Aar glacier was to be the scene of their continuous work, and the centre from which their ascents of the neighboring summits would be made. Here, on the great median moraine, stood a huge boulder of micaceous schist.
But I could get no one in Brienz to agree with me, because no one thought I had done it, though several people there could talk French. The Grimsel Pass is the valley of the Aar; it is also the eastern flank of that great massif, or bulk and mass of mountains called the Bernese Oberland. I call them 'lumps', because they are so very broad and tortuous in their plan that they are hardly ranges.
She opened the envelope and began to read the letter. It ran as follows: "Dear Annie, I hope this finds you well, as it leaves me at present. I'm sendin' thee a helmet that I took off a German that I com across i' one o' them gert sump-hoils that t' Jack Johnsons maks i' t' grund. He were a fearful big gobslotch, so I reckon t' helmet will do to wesh aar Jimmy in.
Yet more imminent was the nearer opportunity, fast disappearing into the nearer danger, ultimately to become the established and fatal centre of ruin at De Aar.
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