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Updated: June 9, 2025
And though these "Charlies" might suppose there were tobacco smugglers passing; yet to hit the right man among such a throng, would be as hard, as to harpoon a speckled porpoise, one of ten thousand darting under a ship's bows.
"She's a bully old house." There was a long silence. By and by old Charlies commenced "Old Injin Charlie is a low-down dog." "C'est vrai, oui!" retorted the Colonel in an undertone. "He's got Injin blood in him." "But he's got some blame good blood, too, ain't it?" The Colonel nodded impatiently. "Bien!
Of course there was a row, and for some minutes a battle-royal raged in New Street, the principal thoroughfare of the town, between my party and the "Charlies," who, although greatly superior in numbers, were sadly "milled," for we were all somewhat scientific bruisers that sublime art or science having been cultivated with great assiduity at the public school through which I had, as was customary, fought my way.
All which you must take as introductory to the important fact that the said Miss Annie, who, as a matter of course, was "very bonnie," as well as passing rich to be, had been, somewhat previous to the prince's entry to the town, pledged to be married to no less considerable a personage than Maister John Menelaws, a son of him of the very same name who dealt in pelts in a shop of the Canongate, and a student of medicine in the Edinburgh University; but as the councillor had in his secret soul hankerings after the prince, and the said student, John, was a red-hot royalist, the marriage was suspended, all to the inexpressible grief of our "bonnie Annie," who would not have given her John for all the Charlies and Geordies to be found from Berwick to Lerwick.
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