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"Monday, 20th, it blows so fresh that we have no communication with the shore. We see Mr. Rome on the beach, but we cannot communicate with him. It blows 'mere fire, as the sailors express it." And for three days more the diary goes on with tales of davits unshipped, high seas, strong gales from the southward, and the ship driven to refuge in Kirkwall or Deer Sound.
My mother's sorely needin' help now, ye ken, since father was drowned, and I maun be doing something." "Ay, ye're right there, lad; ye're right there. But what kind o' work were ye seekin'?" "I carena what it be, if it's just work," I replied. "But I was thinkin' I'd go in one o' the Kirkwall ships if there was one wantin' a lad."
We won the Orkneys from those who held them, and my first fight was in Einar's ship, against two of the viking's vessels. After that we dwelt in Sigurd's great house in Kirkwall, and made many raids on the Sutherland and Caithness shores. I saw some hard fighting there, for the Scots are no babes at weapon play.
It is the only metropolitan church in Scotland, excepting, as I am informed, the Cathedral of Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, which remained uninjured at the Reformation; and Andrew Fairservice, who saw with great pride the effect which it produced upon my mind, thus accounted for its preservation "Ah! it's a brave kirk nane o' yere whig-maleeries and curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it.
And as the melancholy widower, but grateful lover, verified his vow to her, by repeating it to her father within four months from that day, the Earl of Mar rejoined the Lady Joanna at Kirkwall, and brought her away as his bride.
Alfred Noyes in a publication authorized by the British government has thus picturesquely told some of the incidents connected with this service: It is difficult to convey in words the wide sweep and subtle co-ordination of this ocean hunting; for the beginning of any tale may be known only to an admiral in a London office, the middle of it only to a commander at Kirkwall, and the end of it only to a trawler skipper off the coast of Ireland.
Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; But sometimes, in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done. In telegraphic sentences, half swallowed at the ends, They hint a matter's inwardness and there the matter ends. And while the Celt is talking from Valencia to Kirkwall, The English ah, the English! don't say anything at all!
The recruiting party with whom he had gone away had said positively they must return with whatever luck they had in two weeks; and this interval appeared to Sunna to be of interminable length. She spent a good deal of the time with Thora affecting to console her for the loss of Ian Macrae, who had left Kirkwall for Edinburgh a few days after the departure of Boris.
"Oh, that could not be suffered! Impossible! All the women in Kirkwall would fight against such a condition." "Well, so matters stand, and we had been at sword points a year ago but for Lord Aberdeen's cowardly, pernicious love of peace. But he is always whining about 'war destroying wealth and commerce' as if wealth and commerce were of greater worth than national honour and justice and mercy."
If I sail no more wi' Ragon, I must quit Peter's employ; for he loves Ragon as he loves no ither lad i' Stromness or Kirkwall. The Norse blood we think little o', Peter glories in; an' the twa men count thegither o'er their glasses the races o' the Vikings, an' their ain generations up to Snorro an' Thorso." "Is there no ither master but Peter Fae? ask theesel' that question, John."
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