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Updated: June 24, 2025
The debris of supper lay around them scraps of pemmican, pannikins, spoons, knives, and the broken shells of teal-duck eggs which, having been picked up some time before, had gone bad. Suddenly an inspiration doubtless from the spirit of mischief came over Salamander. There was one small unbroken egg on the ground near to Bane's elbow. Just over his head the branch of a bush extended.
"You are, then, one of these fortunate creatures," and Bane's sweeping gesture indicated that he referred to the occupants of the cottages set along the bluff above The Beaches, "who toil not, neither do they spin. I fancied you might be one of us. Rather, I've heard that down here." "That surmise gained coinage when I first arrived at Cardhaven," Louise said, dimpling.
To genius everything comes handy and nothing amiss. Salamander tied the egg to a piece of small twine and suspended it to the twig in such fashion that the egg hung directly over Bane's wide-open mouth. At a glance he had seen that it was possible to lay a light hand on the inner end of the branch, and at the same time bend his mouth over Dougall's ear.
"They's ma dinners noo, tae use yir word, minister they's ma dinners, an' they hunger nae mair wha tak's them saxteen or seventeen coorses, ilka ane o' them; nane o' yir bit lunches wi' napkins an' flowers and finger bowls like ye hae the noo, no' worth the bit grace ye say ower them they's nane o' yir teas, tastin' an' sniffin', wi' sweeties an' sic like they's meat, sir, strong meat for strong men, an' the bane's in the baith o' them like."
Bradley wanted to know how Billie had got along without her, at which both Chet and Billie tried to tell the story of Nellie Bane's collie at the same time and in the same breath. When they had finished Mr. Bradley chuckled, but Mrs. Bradley looked grave. "It happened to be funny," she said. "But it might have been very serious. I hope you were careful after that."
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