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So I said to it 'To the right, Dobbin, my canny fellow; thou shalt be foddered at awd Betty Bell's t'night, and if a' be as it shud be, thou shalt hae a rest t'morrow tee, into the bargain. So Dobbin took away across the moor to Elsdon, just as natural as a Christian could hae done. Weel, when I reached Elsdon, and went into Betty Bell's, there were five o' my cronies sitting.
But we shall record a portion of Sandy's adventures, so far as they are connected with our story, in his own words. The following was one of his favourite anecdotes of himself: Hoos'ever, I just thought to mysel', thinks I drat! I'll away round by Elsdon, and see what a' my cronies there are about.
They were a' trumps, and they gied me three cheers when I went in, for they knawed that I was out and out a gud 'un. "'Ha! Sandy! said they, 'thou'rt welcome, my canny lad we just wanted you to make the half dozen. Hast thou been at Morpeth? "'Yea, said I, 'and hae just come round by Elsdon to hae a boot wi' thee.
Deifications of the different passions and affections, also, it seems, find a place in this extended mythology. S. Percy Smith's "Hawaiki," articles by Mr. Elsdon Best in the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," articles by that author and by Mr. Percy Smith in the "Journal of the Polynesian Society," Mr. E. Tregear's "The Maori Race," and Mr.
The Bairds with a large party had, three months before, carried fire and sword through the district bordering on the main road, as far as Elsdon on the east, and Alwinton on the north. News of their coming had, however, preceded them.
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