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Updated: June 14, 2025
The squirrel looked up, and saw a bird going over at a great height. "That is a peewit," he said. "He is a messenger; you can see how fast and straight he is flying. He is bringing some news, I feel sure, about Choo Hoo. Kapchack sent an out-post of peewits over the hills to watch Choo Hoo's movements, and to let him know directly if he began to gather his army together.
We went up two steps, and met a young woman coming out at the cottage door. "How's Ruth?" said my friend. "Well, hoo is here. Hoo's busy bakin' for Betty." We went in. "You're not bakin' for yourselves, then?" said he. "Eh, naw," replied the young woman," it's mony a year sin' we had a bakin' o' fleawr, isn't it, Ruth?"
'Weel, Shargar, it's grown something awfu' noo. It's Miss Lindsay. Was there iver sic a villain as that Lord Rothie that brither o' yours! 'I disoun 'im frae this verra 'oor, said Shargar solemnly. 'Something maun be dune. We'll awa' to the quay, an' see what'll turn up. I wonner hoo's the tide.
Twin brother, perhaps; but had she one?..." mused Bertie... and then, that never-to-be-forgotten voice ... "Here's 'Oo's Oo er Hoo's Hoo, I mean.... Miss..." He only added the last word as by some sub-conscious instinct. "Mister Williams," said Vivien-David-Warren Williams, facing him with resolute eyes. "Be quite clear about that, Adams; David Vavasour Williams, Miss Warren's cousin."
'Fine; but, my, it's grand to see ye back, said Teen, with a boundless satisfaction. 'It's no' like the same place when ye are away. An' hoo's Glesca lookin' as dreich as ever? 'Quite. And oh, Teen, I have found Liz at last. I saw her last night in Berkeley Street. 'Saw Liz in Berkeley Street? Surely, never! repeated Teen, aghast. 'It is quite true.
Abraham paused upon the threshold as he heard the sound of his wife's voice in prayer, and when, half an hour afterwards, they together descended the brow towards their home, he said: 'Thaa sees, lass, Milly's angel een wor on th' watch a'ter all. 'Yi, said his wife, 'and they see'd a returnin' sinner. But hoo's safe naa; hoo's getten back to her mother, and hoo's getten back to God.
The best strategy therefore open to Kapchack, was either to assail Choo Hoo's camp, or else to fall upon the divisions of Tu Kiu. The difficulty in the case of the camp was that amidst the trees the assailants would suffer as much loss from crushing and confusion as would be inflicted upon the enemy.
In the evening, as they sat together after supper, Mr. Lammie said, 'Weel, Robert, hoo's the fiddle? 'Fine, I thank ye, sir, answered Robert. 'Lat's hear what ye can do wi' 't. Robert fetched the instrument and complied. 'That's no that ill, remarked the farmer. 'But eh! man, ye suld hae heard yer gran'father han'le the bow. That was something to hear ance in a body's life.
The pursuit, indeed, only ended with evening; for seven long hours the victors sated their thirst for slaughter, and would hardly have stayed even then had not the disjointed and weary fragments of Choo Hoo's army found some refuge now in a forest.
"We 'ill gang and see Drumsheugh, Jess; he's anither man sin' Geordie Hoo's deith, and he wes aye kinder than fouk kent;" and the doctor passed at a gallop through the village, whose lights shone across the white frost-bound road. "Come in by, doctor; a' heard ye on the road; ye 'ill hae been at Tammas Mitchell's; hoo's the gudewife? a' doot she's sober."
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