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But where, I asked, was the glove hid. "I ken nae mair than yersel," said Leeby. "My mother's gien to hoddin' things. I speired at her whaur she had hod it, but she juist said, 'What would I be doin' hoddin't'? She'll never admit to me 'at she hods the siller either." Next day Leeby came to me with the latest news. "He's found it," she said, "ay, he's got the glove again.
He lookit like some berfit tinkler wife that had been too, an' had t'a'in, ower the heid, intil a barrel o' yellow oker; an' stickin' on his weyst there was ane o' my winda tickets "Just in To-Day." "O, Bawbie!" he wheenged, "gae up the stair an' see if the ruif's aye on. I think somebody's been hoddin' dianamite in oor garret."
So I went down to Leith, and, exchanging my hoddin grey coat of my mother's spinning for such a jacket as this, I entered my name at the rendezvous as an able-bodied landsman, and sailed with the tender round to Plymouth, where they were fitting out a squadron for the West Indies. 'You would, I am afraid, find your education of little use in your new condition? said Fairford.
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