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'But I was not a private, replied Sir Ferdinand. 'Well, anyhow there's a something about him. Nobody can deny he looks like a gentleman; my word, he'll put some of these Weddin Mountain chaps thro' their facin's, you'll see, says one miner. 'Not he, says another; 'not if he was ten baronites in one; all the same, he's a manly-looking chap and shows blood.
"An' they cam' to see you, granny?" asked Winsome, who approved of the subject. There we heard him routin' for three days till the cotmen fand him i' the hinderend, an' poo'ed him oot wi' cart-rapes. But when he got oot certes, but he was a wild beast! Reed breeks did na suit Jock's taste at the best o' times, and he had no been brocht up to countenance yellow facin's.
Twa meenisters cam' in his time, and Domsie put Geordie Hoo or some ither gleg laddie, that was makin' for college, thro' his facin's, and maybe some bit lassie brocht her copybuke. Syne they had their dinner, and Domsie tae, wi' the Doctor. Man, a've often thocht it was the prospeck o' the Schule Board and its weary bit rules that feenished Domsie.
"Purty slouchy bizniss that, givin' these kids guns before they've had any drill at all don't know even the facin's, let alone the manual of arms," remarked Shorty doubtfully, as they marched over to the shed. "They'll be shooting holes through each others' heads and the tops o' the cars, and'll waste more ammynition than a six-mule team kin haul.
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