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"Whither did the Prince go?" The Babu shrugged his shoulders. "How should I know? They are not of my people, these poor ignorant hill-folk." He went on his way. Linforth was left with the assurance that now, indeed, he had really failed. He took the train that night back to Peshawur. Linforth related the history of his failure to Ralston in the office at Peshawur.
It was a beautiful spring morning; the sweet song of the birds pierced through the noise of the rolling river below, the air was fragrant and bracing, and as I left and commenced the rocky ascent leading again to the mountains, the barks of some fierce-disposed canines, who alone objected to my presence among the hill-folk, died away with the rustle of the leafage in a keen north wind.
Redgauntlet was ay for the strong hand; and his name is kend as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tam Dalyell's. Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.
The hill-folk, who appear, on the best evidence procurable, to have had hard measure dealt to them by the Mr.
'But it is to be remembered, said the King, reaching out for the bottle, 'that he is a very expert log-snatcher and a man of a merry face. What shall I do to him, Sahib? This was interesting. The timid hill-folk would as soon have refused taxes to their King as revenues to their Gods.
And then a cry comes down, and she nods; Axel, maybe, or maybe the hill-folk, devils anyway, something to sniff and scent and find to worm out the meaning of it all, the wisdom of the Almighty with the dark and the forest in the hollow of His hand and He would never harm Oline, that was not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoes.... And there she stands. The ax?
It is the opinion of many wise and busy people that the hill-folk pass the ten-month interval between the end and renewal of winter rains, with no drink; but your true idler, with days and nights to spend beside the water trails, will not subscribe to it.
It was among these tribes that a pioneer mission of Islám penetrated in the eighth of our centuries. Arabs were then greater strangers in Barbary than we are now, but they were by no means the first strange faces seen there. These hardy clansmen, exhibiting the characteristics of hill-folk the world round, still inhabited the uplands and retained their independence.
He rose accordingly, and taking his sheathed broadsword under his arm to support the insolence which he meditated, placed himself in front of the stranger noticed by Niel Blane, in his admonitions to his daughter, as being, in all probability, one of the hill-folk, or refractory presbyterians. All waited for the stranger's answer.
Some of them that fled into Nepaul took me with them, and then afterwards I was up past Darjeeling. The hill-folk up there murdered the rebels who had me, and I became their slave for a time until I escaped; but instead of going south I had to go north, until I found myself among the Afghans.
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