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The number of lads that had gone over to Ayr to be soldiers from among the spinners and weavers of Cayenneville had been so great, that the government got note of it, and sent a recruiting party to be quartered in the town; for the term clachan was beginning by this time to wear out of fashion: indeed, the place itself was outgrowing the fitness of that title.
It wouldna do for us to be seen thegither. If I meet ye in the street I'll never let on I know ye. Amos climbed into the gig and jolted off home. I went down to the shore and sat among the rocks, finishing about tea-time the remains of my provisions. In the mellow gloaming I strolled into the clachan and got a boat to put me over to the inn.
But he added presently after, on seeing one or two lights which twinkled before us, "It's deceits o' Satan, after a', and I fearna to say it for we are near the manse now, and yonder are the lights in the Clachan of Aberfoil." I own I was well pleased at the circumstance to which Mr.
Weel, when it got about the clachan that Janet M'Clour was to be servant at the manse, the folk were fair mad wi' her an' him thegether; and some o' the guidwives had nae better to dae than get round her door-cheeks and chairge her wi' a' that was kent again' her, frae the sodger's bairn to John Tamson's twa kye.
Now gang your ways hame, like a gude bairn jouk and let the jaw gae by Keep out o' sight o' Rashleigh, and Morris, and that MacVittie animal Mind the Clachan of Aberfoil, as I said before, and by the word of a gentleman, I wunna see ye wranged.
And she bade us finish our meat, get clear of the clachan as soon as might be, and lie close in the bit wood on the sea-beach. "And ye can trust me," says she, "I'll find some means to put you over." At this we waited for no more, but shook hands with her upon the bargain, made short work of the puddings, and set forth again from Limekilns as far as to the wood.
I never even wusst it, for that would be nae freen's wuss: ye would never get ony farther gien ye did! I'm nane fit for a minister's wife nor worthy o' bein ane! I micht do no that ill, and pass middlin weel, in a sma' clachan wi' a wee bit kirkie but amang gran' fowk, in a muckle toon for that's whaur ye're sure to be! Eh me, me!
So soon as the congregation were seated after prayers, and the clergyman had read his text, the gracious Duncan, after rummaging the leathern purse which hung in front of his petticoat, produced a short tobacco-pipe made of iron, and observed, almost aloud, "I hae forgotten my spleuchan Lachlan, gang down to the clachan, and bring me up a pennyworth of twist."
He imagined that Daly hardly expected to find Featherstone in Hawick, but it was curious that he was going to Langholm, which was on the best road to Lockerbie in Annandale. It was the police Foster had tried to put off the track at the clachan by striking west across the moors, and he did not think Daly had anything to do with them.
But keep a calm sough till we meet again I maun gae and get Rashleigh out o' the town afore waur comes o't, for the neb o' him's never out o' mischief Mind the Clachan of Aberfoil." He turned upon his heel, and left me to meditate on the singular events which had befallen me.
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