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As a herd-boy he was his own master, and a thousand things called to him; but here he had to go round and round behind a bar, always round. His one diversion was to keep count of the times he drove round, but that was a fatiguing employment and made you even duller than the everlasting going round, and you could not leave off.
There is a bewilderment about the very nature of evil which only he who made us capable of evil that we might be good, can comprehend. Donal had not accompanied Mr. Sclater and his ward, as he generally styled him, to the city, but continued at the Mains until another herd-boy should be found to take his place.
Both had spent the day at church, and returned, conversing with their neighbours, until they reached their own cottage, where they sat reading their Bible, or conversing on subjects derived from it, until the herd-boy brought home the cow from the common pasture. On looking up, the woman saw the cow standing and lowing at the byre door.
This herd-boy and baker's apprentice of the Cevennes, after holding at bay the armies of France for nearly three years, had come to negotiate a treaty of peace with its most famous general. Leaving the greater part of his cavalry and the whole of his infantry at St. Césaire, a few miles from Nismes, Cavalier rode towards the town attended by eighteen horsemen commanded by Catinat.
"'Mother, don't you remember saying to me on that afternoon, Ned, you need not look for the cows in the swamp, they went off towards the big hill! "The delighted mother immediately caught him to her heart, exclaiming, 'You say truly, you are my own, my long-lost son!" The Canadian Herd-Boy.
But one night they determined to watch, and see from their hiding place who the bringer of the sack of gold really was. On the eighth night a fearful storm of wind and rain came on while the Herd-boy was on his way to bring the beautiful girl another bag of gold. Then for the first time he noticed, just as he reached his master's house, that he had forgotten the belt which made him invisible.
Therefore, fiercely as it would have harrowed the pride of Fergus to be informed of the fact, he was in the kingdom of art only as one who ate of what fell from the table, while his father's herd-boy was one of the family.
I slept wi' them a' night, and liked them terrible weel, a hantle better than the cattle," and his eye wandered regretfully to a bleak mountain slope, which had evidently pleasant associations for the little herd-boy. "Did you ever go to school?" asked Grace, anxious to introduce her subject, for she thought she would like this boy for a scholar. "Ay, did I once, when I was a wee laddie.
What did his father's herd-boy mean by talking such English to the ladies, and such vulgar Scotch to him? Although now a magistrand that is, one about to take his degree of Master of Arts Donal was still to Fergus the cleaner-out of his father's byres an upstart, whose former position was his real one towards him at least, who knew him. And did the fellow challenge him to a discussion?
She had a squinting eye, a clubbed foot, and crooked fingers. In short, she was the poorest and ugliest old woman that ever came begging. The first who saw her was the kitchen maid, and she ordered her to be gone for an ugly witch. The next was the herd-boy, and he threw her a bone.
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