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All the sights and sounds of spring were pleasant to him the gurgle of the water, the purple tinge on the woods, the fields growing fair with a tender green. Allister left the plough in the furrow, and came striding down the long field, just to say it was good to see him there.
They could have rushed me and taken me prisoner easily, but they wanted to shoot me from a distance and it made me mad to see them work it. I I hated them all, and I had a reason for it. Curse them!" He added hurriedly: "But I've no grudge against anybody. All I want is a chance to live quiet and clean." There was a faint sigh from Allister.
But I think there must be work somewhere that I could do better more successfully than I can do on the farm. Even when I was doing most, before Allister came, Dan could go before me when he cared to do it. And he did it so easily, forgetting it all the moment it was out of his hand; while I vexed myself and grew weary often, with planning and thinking of what was done and what was still to do.
"'Now you go down to my brother Hamish, he said to Mr. MacLeod; 'he's a carpenter, you know, and ask him to lend you his longest wimble." "What's a wimble?" asked little Allister. "A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw. And Allister ran and fetched it, and got back only half an hour before the sun went down.
He had no intention of shirking a share in the actual work of the camp; even though Allister had set that example for his following. He took some lengths of pitchy pine sticks and arranged them for torches. One of them alone would send a flare of yellow light through the cabin; two made a comfortable illumination. But he worked cheerlessly.
He would set all things right again, and Dan would not be likely to resist his oldest brother's lawful authority. But if Allister did not come soon? Shenac shrank from this question. If he did not come soon, she would have something else to think about besides Dan's delinquencies. Her mother could not endure this suspense much longer.
Maybe you are right, though. Everybody seems to think that I like to be first. I know I have thought a great deal about the new house; but it has been for the rest, and for Allister most of all." "Shenac, you must not vex yourself thinking about it," said her brother. "I am more glad of this for your sake than for all the rest. I cannot tell you how glad I am."
"There is a pot in the Highlands," began Kirsty, "not far from our house, at the bottom of a little glen. It is not very big, but fearfully deep; so deep that they do say there is no bottom to it." "An iron pot, Kirsty?" asked Allister. "No, goosey," answered Kirsty. "A pot means a great hole full of water black, black, and deep, deep." "Oh!" remarked Allister, and was silent.
I don't, Ranald. But it will be a great trouble to the minister to have to turn her away. I wonder if we couldn't contrive to make her go of herself. I wish we could scare her out of the country. It's not nice either for a woman like that to have to do with such innocents as Allister and Davie." "She's very fond of Davie." "So she is. That's the only good thing I know of her.
It will only be a little longer whether Evan lives or dies." "No," said Shenac; "but my mother." "We will not tell her for a little while," said Hamish. "If Allister is coming it will be soon; and if he has stayed, it will give my mother more hope of his coming home at last to hear that he is well and that he is waiting for Evan." "And my father," said Shenac Dhu.
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