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They had now descended the broad loaning, which, winding round the foot of the steep bank, or heugh, brought them in front of the thatched, but comfortable, farm-house, which was the dwelling of Hobbie Elliot and his family. The doorway was thronged with joyful faces; but the appearance of a stranger blunted many a gibe which had been prepared on Hobbie's lack of success in the deer-stalking.
I went into the grounds with my heart very high up on my bosom, not much put about at any human danger, let me add, for an encounter with an enemy of flesh and blood was a less fearsome prospect than the chance of an encounter with more invulnerable foes, who, my skin told me, haunted every heugh and howe of that still and sombre demesne of Dalness.
The name of the cleft was the Heugh of Corrynakiegh; and although from its height, and being so near upon the sea, it was often beset with clouds, yet it was on the whole a pleasant place, and the five days we lived in it went happily. We slept in the cave, making our bed of heather bushes which we cut for that purpose, and covering ourselves with Alan's great-coat.
Then he consulted his works and his familiar, and told them: "The Laidly Worm is really the Princess Margaret and it is hunger that drives her forth to do such deeds. Put aside for her seven kine, and each day as the sun goes down, carry every drop of milk they yield to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh, and the Laidly Worm will trouble the country no longer.
They marched into England and took up a strong position on Homildon Hill or Heugh. The Percies, under Northumberland and Hotspur, sent against them a body of English archers, who easily outranged the Scottish bowmen, and threw the army into confusion. Then ensued, as at Dupplin and Halidon Hill, a simple massacre. Murdoch Stewart and Douglas were taken captive with several other Scots lords.
"Since your majesty is so clement," replied the leech, "you will not refuse to aid me a little in building my house, Rue Saint-Andre-des-Arcs." "Heugh!" said the king.
But the skipper says that we shall soon be in smooth water, and that there will be some breakfast in an hour." "Heugh!" ejaculated Saint Simon. "Breakfast here! I don't want anything till we get on shore if we ever do. Here, look behind you."
'Take the oars, Sir, hang you! cried Cluffe. 'There are no oarth, replied Puddock, solemnly. 'Or the helm. 'There'th no helm. 'And what the devil, Sir? and a splash of cold water soused the silken calves of Cluffe at this moment. 'Heugh! heugh! and what the devil will you do, Sir? you don't want to drown me, I suppose? roared Cluffe, holding hard by the gunwale.
"But ye maun listen to it, my bonnie lassie," said Ochiltree, "for a' our lives depend on it besides, when ye get on the tap o' the heugh yonder, ye can gie them a round guess o' what's ganging on in this Patmos o' ours and Sir Arthur's far by that, as I'm thinking."
Take, for instance, monsters that tradition has accepted and localised, such as the Worm of Lambton or that of Spindleston Heugh.
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