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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Nevertheless, keep your eyes open, for thou mayest need them; so good night." "Good night, and shut thine own, so soon as Dame Bloyce will permit thee." The two knew not, so dark was the night, that a third person stood so near to them that he had overheard the whole of their dialogue.
The light ye see comes from the North; and, an' it were winter, I should think it was the shooting of the Northern lights." "These be no Northern lights, nor Southern, nor moon, nor morning," said another. "An' it be not a fire, my name is not Job Bloyce."
"You know my croak as well as your own; but babes and sucklings must be taught, and it is regular, so I will let you know lest you may have forgotten the sling of David." "Always full of thy nonsense," said Bloyce. "But what made thee so late?" "Late is it? It can be but a matter of ten minutes past twelve, and it takes a little while to rub one's eyes and get them open after being called.
"An' my guns deceive me not," he said to himself, "it should be past midnight. There is no moon, nor star, to be sure, to tell by, but I have mounted guard before, and my feelings let me know as surely as a dial what's the hour. Hark! Stand," he cried, "and give the countersign!" "Poh! Job Bloyce," answered a voice.
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