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He stopped abruptly, and both boys stood in crab-like attitudes of expectation, ready to fly, for the divit took the exact course thus indicated, and bounding down the bank, hit MacRummle fair on his broad back. The guilty ones dived like rabbits into the bracken. "Bless me!" exclaimed the old gentleman, jumping up and shaking the dry earth off. "This is most remarkable.
"How is Milly this morning?" asked MacRummle, who came down late to breakfast, as he always did, and consequently missed morning prayers. "Better, much better than we could have expected. Of course the arm is inflamed and very painful, but not broken, which is almost a miracle, considering the height from which she fell.
Did not Milly say you were noble, and that it would be worse than murder to kill you? No, you are safe from me, at all events, even if you were not so wary as to keep yourself safe from everybody. And yet, methinks, if MacRummle were still up there, he would have the chance of giving you a severe fright, though he has not the skill to bring you down."
This was too much for MacRummle. Unable to face the misery of disentanglement, he cut the line, despatched the eel, attached a new hook, and continued his occupation. At the head of the pool in question the bank was so precipitous and high that the boys could see only the top of the rod swinging gracefully to and fro as the patient man pursued his sport.
Seeing that there was no likelihood of their coming nearer, he raised his rifle, took steady but quick aim, and fired. One of the hinds dropped at once; the other followed her terrified lord as he dashed wildly up the slope. Partial deafness is a slight disadvantage in deer-stalking. So, at least, MacRummle discovered that day.
"Sea-sickness is the best tonic I know of, but it is an awful medicine to take." "Almost as good as mountain air," remarked MacRummle, as they filed out of the drawing-room. "I do wish I had managed to bring that raven home." At first the party at dinner was as merry as usual.
Rounded boulders, large or small, are never safe to walk on, even for the young and active. MacRummle found it so. His foot slipped, and he sat down, with undignified haste, in a small pool of water. Down went the boys' heads, that they might explode their laughter as softly as possible among the roots of the heather. "Wass it not funny?" whispered Donald.
I never saw such a boy as Archie is to photograph. I believe he has got every scene in the island worth having on his plates now, and he has taken to the cattle of late What think ye was the last thing he tried? I found him in the yard yesterday trying to photograph himself!" "That must indeed have puzzled him; how did he manage?" asked MacRummle. "Well, it was ingenious.
The supplies checking speech again, MacRummle looked around him, with benignant good-will to man and beast expressed on his countenance. Craning their necks over a bank, and seeing the old gentleman thus pleasantly engaged, the two boys sank into the heather, and disappeared from view as completely as did "Clan Alpine's warriors true," after they had been shown to Fitz James by Roderick Dhu.
"Well, you see I have put them on at once, for I have only arrived a few hours since. My name is Barret. I believe I have the pleasure of addressing Mr MacRummle?" "You have that pleasure, Mr Barret; and now, if you will do me the kindness to carry my rod and basket, I will lead you back to the dog-cart by a path which will not necessitate an additional pair of native boots!
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