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"An' I wad fain ken what ye'll say til't, for ye never wad alloo o' kelpies; an' there's me been followed by a sure ane, this last half-hoor or it may be less!" "Hoo kenned ye it was a kelpie it's maist as dark's pick?" "Kenned! quo' he? Didna I hear the deevil ahin' me the tramp o' a' the fower feet o' 'im, as gien they had been fower an' twinty!"
He's been at it this hale half-hoor!" she murmured to herself as she poured from a black bottle into a pewter measure a gill of whisky for the pale-faced toper who stood on the other side of the counter: far gone in consumption, he could not get through the forenoon without his morning.
Lying upon her straw, she had seen, through the fanlight over the stable door, the swiftness of the current there passing, and understood the danger. "I doobt," she said, addressing no one in particular, "the ga'le o' the stable winna stan' abune anither half-hoor." "It maun fa' than," said the farmer, taking a pinch of snuff in hopeless serenity, and turning away.
There's sma' profit in addin' my testimony to the weight o' that; but I wad jist like to tell this company, Mr Cheerman and gentlemen, hoo I cam' to ken mair aboot the affair nor my frien' Alec Forbes is awar' o'. That same efternoon, I expeckit him i' the leebrary as I hae said, and whan he didna come, I took my hat that was about a half-hoor efter the laird left me and gaed oot to luik for him.
I s' warran' Frostie says mair in ae half-hoor to his tyke, nor Jeemie has said to you or me sin' first he gaed to the college!" "Bairns is whiles a queer kin' o' a blessin!" remarked the mother. "But, eh, Peter! it's what may lie ahint the silence that frichts me!" "Lass, ye're frichtin me noo! What div ye mean?" "Ow naething!" returned Marion, bursting into tears.
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