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Updated: June 3, 2025
A tin "pan" and "pitcher" of water stood near the door, and the table in the middle of the room was covered with oilcloth. Four men and a boy inhabited this bothy, and the rain had driven them all indoors. In better weather they spend the leisure of the evening at the game of quoits, which is the standard pastime among Scottish ploughmen.
"And could we not be worse? I'm sure Black Duncan, reared in a bothy in Skye, who has been tossed by the sea, and been wet and dry in all airts of the world, would be a very thankless man if he was not pleased to be here safe and comfortable, on a steady bed at night, and not heeding the wind nor the storm no more than if he was a skart." "Oh! you're glad enough to be here, then?" said she.
Only in the very deepest cuts a little water still lurked. Stair Garland's lips tightened as he turned to the interior of the Bothy. "It is all up, Mr. Julian," he said, "I am sorry I have led you into this I knew the thing could be done, but they had been so long in thinking of it that I had come to believe they would never hit on it at all!"
He reached the Wild safely with nothing worse to report than the fact that he was fired upon by a sentry, which warned him that he must not come that way too often. He did not enter directly into the Bothy, where, as he knew, Julian Wemyss would be doing an hour's reading before turning in.
The doctor smiled grimly, and soon after drew up at the door in the garden wall, and hurried through to the bothy where John Grange had been carried and lay perfectly insensible, with Mrs Mostyn, a dignified elderly widow lady, who had hurried out as soon as she had heard of the accident, bathing his head, and who now anxiously waited till the doctor's examination was at an end.
The other, which had a single bed, was floored with wood. It was not badly lit by two very small windows that faced each other, and, besides several stools, there was a long form against one of the walls. Of these some belonged to the bothy, while others were the private property of the tenants.
Wemyss sat at the end of the table nearest to the fire. "Eben," said Stair Garland, setting his elbows squarely on the table and leaning forward, "you are an intelligent man and you will understand that since the Bothy has been surrounded by an armed force and we may expect an assault any hour, your position has very much changed. We took you, to a very great extent, on your own statement.
For Whitefoot was a grave dog and had had to do with many very serious things indeed things which touched even the life of his master. So it is no wonder that at this time of day he rather resented pains being taken with his education. It was like setting a double-first to construe the first book of Cæsar. Stair returned to the Bothy with his heart heavy and many thoughts churning within him.
Meat of each meat, drink of each drink, warm water to his feet, and a soft bed for his limbs. On the next day the raven gave him the same sight over six Bens, and six Glens, and six Mountain Moors. They saw a bothy far off, but, though far off, they were soon there.
Patsy had said nothing at home about her race over the moors to save the Glenanmays lads from the press-gang, and when her Uncle Julian, having talked to Captain Laurence, approached her on the subject, my lady replied that she was at the Bothy of Blairmore to help her friend Jean Garland. "And where was Jean when the 'press' found you there alone?" said Julian Wemyss, smiling.
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