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Consequently we practically slept in wet, not damp, blankets for days at a time; and to return from your guard about two in the morning and get into such an uninviting couch was trying to one's temper, of course. Even one's "goose haar piller," as the boys called their feather pillow, might be sodden. To make your bed in snow or be snowed over is not nearly so bad.
The sentimental recollections induced by these two songs were speedily dissipated by a rattling comic song in Dutch, "Op haar hot oog zit'n fratje" A few recitations followed. One of the reciters had just enunciated the lines "Within the circle of your incantation No blight nor mildew falls, No fierce unrest, nor lust, nor lost ambition, Passes those airy walls"
Chestnut-tressed Mary herself could not have been lovelier than the red-haired girl who walked beside me, and when the royal beauty came on a day of chill, northern haar, to her Scottish realm, she was only a year older than this child we all love but think too young for love. Yet already, at nineteen, Mary was a King's widow, and had been Queen of France.
I'd sooner a durned sight be thar than haar if it comed on to blow!" "Patience, my friend!" replied Mr Meldrum. "Don't you recollect that old French proverb, `Everything comes to him who waits!" "Don't reckon I dew, mister," answered the other. "I guess, though, it warn't a waiter at one of them hotels that said that, hey?"
With a spasm in his throat Matt was about to ask what it was that was all over; but he was forestalled by old Malachi's wife, who, pushing her head through the staircase doorway into the room, cried: 'It's a lad, Matt, and a fine un an' o'! 'Hang th' lad! cried Matt; 'how's Miriam? 'Come and see for thisel; hoo's bin waitin' for thee this hawve haar.
They be all noo-laid uns. Straange thick haar this morn," he continued, wiping the condensed mist from his eyelashes. "Take those eggs up to mother, Tom," said Dick imperatively. "Sha'n't. I know! You want to be off without me." "Hallo, young fellow!" said the squire cheerily. "What have you got there eggs?" "Yes, mester, fresh uns for the missus."
At that we drew our chairs close before the fire. "Many's the time we would be talking about ye, Mr Hamish," says he, "Dan and myself; yon time we left ye in the haar at Loch Ranza a senseless job, too, by all accounts, and Alastair rowing to the suthard, and us creeping out to the nor'west; he'll be hard to find now, by Gully ay, Dan will be hard to find.
It is pretty nearly over, I think, however, for the ashes are not falling quite so thickly now." "I'm glad to hear that," said Mr Lathrope. "Gin it didn't stop soon, we'd all be transmogrified inter blacker niggers than the cook haar!" "I ain't no nigger, massa!" interposed Snowball, feeling his dignity insulted by the remark.
"Kerguelen cabbage," promptly answered Mr Meldrum. "Snakes and alligators, mister! Do you expect to find sich kitchen stuff haar?" "I do," replied the other; "and intend to search for it to-morrow morning, as soon as I turn out!" "It was lucky we have poor puss, papa," said Florry just then. "We would have had all our things eaten up by the mice only for her."
She was saved that and some few other things by being only a governess, instead of one of Fate's cherished darlings, nestled in a family home. She had no time to grieve, except in the dead of night, when "the rain was on the roof." It so happened that, after the haar, there set in a season of continuous, sullen, depressing rain.
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