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Updated: May 19, 2025
To them there entered the two boys, the younger dangling a fish. "It is the big trout ye lost," he cried. "We guddled 'um. We wad has gotten 'um afore, but a wumman frichted 'um." Then turning unabashed to Alice, he said in accusing tones, "That's the wumman!" The elder boy gently but firmly performed on his brother the operation known as "scragging."
It is possible, though not probable, that they "guddled" small trout in the streams of Paradise, and dived for the big ones in the deeper pools. We may be wrong in supposing that they did, but he would certainly be bold who should assert that they did not.
After that, daily she went farther and farther, watched me as I guddled for trout in the stream, aided me as I picked berries in the thickets, helped me with the deer I brought into camp. "You are very good to me," she said, "and you hunt well. You work. You are a man, John Cowles. I love you." But hearing words so sweet as these to me, still I did not tell her what secret was in my soul.
Ralph ran swiftly down the great dyke in a manner more natural to a young man than dignified in a poet. In a minute he came to the edge of the glen in which Andra Kissock had guddled the trouts. That flash of layender must pass this way. It passed and stayed.
The old ladies listened so sympathetically to our tales of how many trout we had that day guddled in the burn; of the colt we had managed to catch and mount as a family by the aid of the dyke, and of the few delirious moments spent on its slippery back before it threw us as a family; of the ins and outs of why Boggley's nose was swelling visibly and his right eye disappearing.
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