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The poor Hieland body, Dugald Mahony, cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and a sair clour in the head ye'll mind Dugald, he carried aye an axe on his shouther and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for something to eat. But he grat when he spak o' the Colonel, ye never saw the like.
"Deil, but your dog's weel entered wi' the vermin now, sir!" were the first words uttered by the jolly farmer, as he came up, his head streaming with blood, and recognised his deliverer and his little attendant. "I hope, sir, you are not hurt dangerously?" "Oh, deil a bit-my head can stand a gey clour nae thanks to them, though, and mony to you.
I had been sickened by their crazy devotions, but I was more sickened by this man's barbarity. It was the woman, too, who had given me food the night before. So I stepped out, and bade the man release her. He was a huge, sunburned ruffian, and for answer aimed a clour at my head. "Take that, my mannie," he said. "I'll learn ye to follow the petticoats."
The forecastle was a roomy place enough, set all about with berths, in which the men of the watch below were seated smoking or lying down asleep. I had no sooner moved, moreover, than one of the men brought me a drink of something healing which Mr. Riach had prepared, and bade me lie still and I should soon be well again. There were no bones broken, he explained: "A clour on the head was naething.
The poor Hieland body, Dugald Mahoney, cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and a sair clour in the head ye'll mind Dugald? he carried aye an axe on his shouther and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for something to eat. But he grat when he spak o' the Colonel, ye never saw tie like.
The poor Hieland body, Dugald Mahony, cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and a sair clour in the head ye'll mind Dugald, he carried aye an axe on his shouther and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for something to eat. But he grat when he spak o' the Colonel, ye never saw the like.
'Deil, but your dog's weel entered wi' the vermin now, sir! were the first words uttered by the jolly farmer as he came up, his head streaming with blood, and recognised his deliverer and his little attendant. 'I hope, sir, you are not hurt dangerously? 'O, deil a bit, my head can stand a gay clour; nae thanks to them, though, and mony to you.
"The curtain is drawn, and the shadow is on you; but is that a scar on your brow, Staneholme, and where did you get it?" "A clour from a French pistol;" it was but skin deep he was off his camp-bed in a few days. He stooped forward, as he spoke slightingly, and pushed back the hair that half obscured the faint blue seam.
'Deil, but your dog's weel entered wi' the vermin now, sir! were the first words uttered by the jolly farmer as he came up, his head streaming with blood, and recognised his deliverer and his little attendant. 'I hope, sir, you are not hurt dangerously? 'O, deil a bit, my head can stand a gay clour; nae thanks to them, though, and mony to you.
The poor Hieland body, Dugald Mahony, cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and a sair clour in the head ye'll mind Dugald, he carried aye an axe on his shouther and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for something to eat. But he grat when he spak o' the Colonel, ye never saw the like.
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