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'I daursay now, that stick's standing aboot a thousand years: I've counted fourteen hunder rings in the wood of a pine no much bigger. Ou, 'twill mak a gran' mast for a seventy-four nigh a hunder feet lang, and as straight as a rod.
Three hunder' thousan' francs, and the time is up! The other get from his chair, and say, 'How would you have pay if you had lost, Doltaire? And m'sieu' answer, 'From the coffers of the King, like you, Bigot' His tone is odd. I feel madame's breath go hard. Bigot turn round and say to the others, 'Will you take your way to the great hall, messieurs, and M'sieu' Doltaire and I will follow.
"How many of these damn things we got?" he inquired. "About three hunder' and fifty," Thrackles replied. "Well, we've got enough for me. I'm sick of this job. It stinks." They looked at each other. I could see the disgust rising in their eyes, the reek of rotten blubber expanding their nostrils. With one accord they cast aside the masks.
Ane can see amang the rougher stanes the rose-wrought mullions of an arched window, an' the trough that ance held the holy water. About twa hunder years ago a wee mair maybe, or a wee less, for ane canna be very sure o' the date o' thae old stories the building was entire; an' a spot near it, whar the wood now grows thickest, was laid out in a corn-field.
"Counts six," he continued, muttering to himself while placing the scalp in his belt; "six at fifty three hunder shiners for 'Pash har; cuss beaver trappin'! says I." Having secured the bleeding trophy, he wiped his knife upon the hair of one of the buffaloes, and proceeded to cut a small notch in the woodwork of his gun, alongside five others that had been carved there already.
He got his way, and smacked his lips unctuously. "Now, where is Tommy?" "Put your face close to mine," said Corp, and then he whispered hoarsely, "He's in a spleet new Lair, writing out bills wi' a' his might, offering five hunder crowns reward for Stroke's head, dead or alive!" The new haunt was a deserted house, that stood, very damp, near a little waterfall to the east of the Den.
There's as many as I like to whistle for." "You mean Grizel and Elspeth, I ken, but " "I wasna thinking of the womenfolk," Tommy told him, with a contemptuous wave of the hand. He went closer to Corp, and said, in a low voice, "The McKenzies are waiting!" "Are they, though?" said Corp, perplexed, as he had no notion who the McKenzies might be. "And Lochiel has twa hunder spearsmen."
And in this country, and in the isles, whilk are little better, or, to speak the truth, rather waur than the mainland, there are about twa hunder and thirty parochines, including the Orkneys, where, whether they speak Gaelic or no I wotna, but they are an uncivilised people.
"'Cross ter dat point yonder see, whar de lone tree stan's; we done 'round dat 'bout tree hunder' yards out, an' then go straight 'way north." "You use no chart?" He burst into a guffaw, as though the question was a rare joke. "No, sah; I nebber done saw one." "But surely you must steer by compass?" "Dar is a little one somewhar on board, and Ah done ain't seed it fer mor 'n a yare, Ah reckon.
Judas was a fool what was thirty dollars! you give me hunder' to take you to the Barren Grounds. Pah!" The half-breed chuckled, shook his head sagely, swore half-way through his vocabulary at Whiskey Wine, gratefully received a pipe of tobacco from Shon M'Gann, and continued: "He come in on us slow and still, and push out long thin hands, the fingers bent like claws, towards the pot.
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