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'F-o-r-rard! screamed his lordship, who was a sort of echo to his huntsman, just as Jack Spraggon was echo to his lordship. 'He's away for Gunnersby Craigs, observed Jack, pointing that way, for they were a good ten miles off. 'Hope so, replied his lordship, for whom the distance could never be too great, provided the pace corresponded. 'F-o-o-r-rard! screamed Jack.
It was calm and blue to-day, and no sound disturbed the quiet save the incessant shriek and scream of the rock birds, the kittiwakes, black-headed gulls, and guillemots that live on the sides of these high sheer craigs.
'I believe that's very true, said the postilion. 'So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch Head, where he was found that evening; but what became of the babe, frankly I cannot say. But he that was minister here then, that's now in a better place, had an opinion that the bairn was only conveyed to fairy-land for a season.
'By my soul, mon, cried Gilderoy to the Lord of Session, 'as this gibbet is built to break people's craigs, and is not uniform without another, I must e'en hang you upon the vacant beam. And straightway the Lord of Session swung in the moonlight, and Gilderoy had cracked his black and solemn joke. This sense of fun is the single trait which relieves the colossal turpitude of Gilderoy.
They had not proceeded far before their scouts perceived the outposts of the English, which surrounded Cartlane Craigs; and to avoid this danger, they took a circuitous path, in hopes of finding some at the western side of the craigs. Kenneth knew the abbot; and entering it under covert of the night, obtained permission for his men to rest there.
The Castle Rock, Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craigs and Calton Hill are all separate and fine mountains and, with the Frith of Forth, the ocean and the old picturesque town, make an assemblage of fine objects that I have seen nowhere else. Mr.
"'On our entrance into the passes of the craigs, continued Kenneth, 'the English captain there mentioned the fate of Bothwell, and the captivity of Lord Mar; and with very little courtesy to sons of the church, ordered the bier to be opened, to see whether it did really contain a corpse, or provisions for our besieged countrymen.
The English commanders seeing the panic of their men, and which they were less able to surmount on account of the way to the gate being strewn with their slain comrades, fell back into the shadow of the towers, where by the light of the moon, like men paralyzed, they viewed the departure of their enemies over the trenches. Cartlane Craigs.
Two days before I was betrayed into the hands of the traitor from whom you rescued me, a messenger from Cartlane Craigs informed my cousin that the gallant Wallace was surrounded; and if my father did not send forces to relieve him, he must inevitably perish.
I say not that it is to be compared to a mace but, when on foot, I would as lief have it as a sword." "Now, Jessie, do you mount John's horse. We can ride quietly, for Longtown is but some three miles ahead." They rested there for a couple of hours, then mounted again, and crossed the Pentlands by a horse track between Cristindury and Gele Craigs.
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