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She came thoughtfully in, and said: "I've been taking a thoucht, and this is no what yon gude physeecian meaned; ye are no to fling your chaerity like a bane till a doeg; ye'll gang yoursel to Jess Rutherford; Flucker Johnstone, that's my brother, will convoy ye." "But how is your brother to know me?" "How? Because I'll gie him a sair sair hiding, if he lets ye gang by."
The House in its choice of Councillors elected several decided Loyalists, though it did not reelect four of this party who were of that body the last year, namely, Messrs. Flucker, Ropes, Paine, and Worthington. The Governor refused his consent to eleven on the list. On the next day he thus wrote of these events: "Boston, June 1,1769.
"WHAT is in the wind this dark night? Six Newhaven boats and twenty boys and hobbledehoys, hired by the Johnstones at half a crown each for a night's job." "Secret service!" "What is it for?" "I think it is a smuggling lay," suggested Flucker, "but we shall know all in good time." "Smuggling!" Their countenances fell; they had hoped for something more nearly approaching the illegal.
"They are keen to hae them," said Flucker; and hastily retired, as if to treat further with the small merchants. On this, Mr. Miller, pretending to make for Leith, said, carelessly, "Twenty-three shillings, or they are not for me." "Tak the cutter's freight at a hundre' cran, an' I'm no caring," said Christie. "They are mine!" said Mr. Miller, very sharply. "How much shall I give you the day?"
"Hullo! here comes Christie Johnstone," exclaimed one of the young men perched on the railing, who was poisoning the fresh air with the sickly scent of a cigarette. "So 'tis, with 'Flucker, the baddish boy, in tow, as large as life," added another, with a pleasant laugh as he turned to look.
If my reader has seen and heard Mademoiselle Rachel utter her famous Sortez, in "Virginie," he knows exactly with what a gesture and tone the Johnstone uttered this word. "Hech! what a spite Flucker Johnstone's dochter has taen against us." Christie. "Scairt!" "Aweel! what's a' your paession, my boenny woman?" Christie. "Scairt!" Beeny retired before the thunder and lightning of indignant virtue.
"Maybe she has fand the herrin'," said a ten-year-old. "Haw! haw! haw!" went the others. "She find the herrin', when there's five hundred fishermen after them baith sides the Firrth." The youngster was discomfited. In fact the expedition bore no signs of fishing. The six boats sailed at sundown, led by Flucker. He brought to on the south side of Inch Keith, and nothing happened for about an hour.
So half a crown was his first bode. The enemy, with anger at her heart, called up a humorous smile, and saying, "An' ye'll get saxpence," went about some household matter; in reality, to let her proposal rankle in Flucker. Flucker lighted his pipe slowly, as one who would not do a sister the injustice to notice so trivial a proposition. He waited fresh overtures. They did not come.
"You will keep them till Sunday week and sell their bones." Enter 4th Merchant. 4th Mer. "Are your fish sold? I'll give sixteen shillings." Christie. "I'm seeking twenty-five, an' I'm offered eighteen." 4th Mer. Christie. "They hae putten their heads thegither." Here Flucker came up to her, and told her there was a Leith merchant looking for her.
As the yacht worked alongside Granton Pier, before running out, the said Flucker calmly and scientifically drew his lordship's attention to three points: The direction of the wind the force of the wind and his opinion, as a person experienced in the Firth, that it was going to be worse instead of better; in reply, he received an order to step forward to his place in the cutter the immediate vicinity of the jib-boom.
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