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Then they were dismissed to their seats by a series of mental arithmetic questions, sums of varying difficulty being propounded, until little white-haired, blue-eyed Johnnie Aird, with the single big curl on the top of his head, was left alone. "One and one, Johnnie?" said the master, smiling down at the rosy face.
The Deacon and another idler or two gathered about the steps in the darkness, to see that royal going off. Peter Riney's bunched-up little old figure could be seen on the front seat of the gig; Aird was already mounted behind. A widening cone of light shone out from the leftward lamp of the gig, full on a glistering laurel, which Simpson had growing by his porch.
John Aird & Co. for the construction of the great reservoir and dam at Shellâl, which serves for the storage of water at the time of the flood Nile. The river is 'held up' here sixty-five feet above its old normal level.
But how gladly would she have given up glory and medal for the joy of it, if she had dared. At length the choosing was over, and the school ranged in two opposing lines, with Margaret and Thomas at the head of their respective forces, and little Jessie MacRae and Johnnie Aird, with a single big curl on the top of his head, at the foot.
On the morrow I went to my brother, who dwells in the Nether Aird of Drumlochy, and told him of the last and of all the former appearances, which was the first time I ever spoke of it to anybody. He and I went to see a sister of ours at Glenballow, who was dying, but she was dead before we came.
Although the most valuable possessions of his family were on the Aird, the chief centre of his popularity was in Stratheric, a wild hilly district between Inverness and Fort Augustus.
Yule having kindly placed the notes of his voyage at the disposal of a friend in the colony, they were partially published in one of the local journals in the month of January last. The portion relating to Torres Straits is instructive. The Bramble sailed from Port Jackson about the end of December 1845, in company with the Castlereagh tender, Lieut. Aird, Commander. Touching at Moreton Bay, Mr.
"Sweet souvenir!" he cried, and kissed it, "most dear remembrance!" The Deacon fed on the sight. The richness of his satiric perception was too great to permit of speech. He could only gloat and be dumb. "Waiting for Jack Gourlay," Aird rattled again. "He's off to College again, and we're driving in his father's trap to meet the express at Skeighan Station. Wonder what's keeping the fellow.
Yet he did not scruple, when it suited his purpose, to designate his clansmen, the lairds around him, as "the little pitiful barons of the Aird;" this was, however, when writing to his friends of opposite politics to the Frasers, generally to Duncan Forbes. The devotion of his unfortunate adherents can hardly be conceived in the present day.
Here is a letter folded in it in my handwriting. What does the superscription say?" "To Agnes Aird." "Just so. You were to have opened it after my death, but you may read it now. Please to do so aloud." "MY DEAR YOUNG LADY, When I am gone, it is my earnest desire that your marriage with Charles Coe shall take place as early as may be found convenient.
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