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He then returned, panting a good deal, but much composed, and said "Now, darlints, come an' help me to gather the bits o' stick; somebody's bin scatterin' them all over the place, they have, bad luck to them! an' then ye'll sit down and talk a bit, an' tell me all about it." "But what's the fire for?" asked Ailie.
Och! but it's lonesome I've been these three days niver a wan here but meself an' the ghosts. Come ashore, darlints, and comfort me!" "Fort Desolation, indeed!" muttered Jack Robinson, as he looked round him sadly; "not a bad name. I'll adopt it. Lower the boat, lads." Thus Jack took possession of his new home. "Your name is Teddy O'Donel?" said Jack.
'I'm sure I won't have him over my bed, said Fulbert, proceeding to rub him out; and though, for the moment, Achilles was saved by violent measures of Edgar's, yet before the end of the next day, Fulbert and Lance had made him black from head to foot, all but the whites of his eyes and his teeth; Robina and Angela had peeped in, and emulated the terror of the Trojans, or the savages; and Sibby had fallen on the young gentleman for being 'so bold' as to draw a frightful phooka upon their walls just to frighten the darlints.
Before the break of day every man capable of carrying a weapon is out on the ice to try and get his share of the spoils. They carry every conceivable sort of gun, but the six-foot muzzle-loaders are the favourites. These ancient weapons have been handed down from father to son for generations, and locally go by the somewhat misleading soubriquet of the "little darlints."
Bramton attempted to buy them off with tribute in the shape of cup-cakes. "Sure, darlints, they do be starvin' yez," purred Mrs. Bramton. "Don't I know the likes o' them? Now roon away quietlike an' ladylike " "Like a hen," retorted Scott. "I want some preserves." "That's all very well," said Geraldine with her mouth full, "but we expected to skate about the kitchen and watch you make pastry.
"And did they know he was a bad man and would bate you?" "I don't think they knew," said Phil, with hesitation. "My mother did not know." "I've got three childer myself," said Bridget; "they'll get wet comin' home from school, the darlints but I wouldn't let them go with any man to a far country, if he'd give me all the gowld in the world. And where does that man live that trates you so bad?"
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