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Updated: May 6, 2025
I shall be pleased to receive as many berries as you can send, and will give you market prices for the same. "Yours respectfully, "PETER McDUFF." This was the first business letter Rod had ever received and he was delighted. After showing it to Mr. and Mrs. Royal, he rushed over to tell the good news to Captain Josh and Whyn. The latter was much pleased, and she gave him some sound advice.
"My name'll be Peter McDuff," he insisted, coming further into the room while she stepped back in terror. "I'll be sixty years of old, and I'll neffer be casting a tory vote! An' if you'll be gifing me a man my own beeg and my own heavy " he brandished his fists fiercely. "Peter!" The McDuff turned. Behind him stood Angus McRae, his gentle face distressed.
Why that's where all those dreadfully poor, dirty people live, isn't it?" "Yes. They are an unsavoury bunch down there. That's where Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy throw the household furniture at each other, and Billy Perkins starves his family for drink, and where the celebrated Peter McDuff plays the fiddle every night at the tavern. He might have serenaded you, if you had gone back home by the road."
McDuff pondered upon these facts for some time over his beer and then set out to find Jones not a difficult task, as the legatee was making a round of all the near- by saloons and endeavoring to drink up his good fortune as rapidly as possible. Overtaking him in a side street McDuff grasped him roughly by the shoulder.
"Why," answered I, "the civil law will not settle disputes between thieves, it will not enforce an equitable division of stolen property, and it will not compel rogues to keep a dishonest contract between themselves. Now this fellow, Jones, it seems to me, was almost as bad as your friend McDuff.
The family followed him into the parlour and seated themselves stiffly around the walls. Kirsty McDuff, the servant girl, and Jimmie Bailey, the chore boy, entered also a few minutes later. Johnstone as they entered, and that Janet and the Bailey boy were further provided with catechisms.
Lawyer Ed pulled up before him. "Oh Peter, Peter!" he cried, "is this you?" Peter Fiddle stopped singing, with the righteously indignant air of one whose devotions have been interrupted by a rude barbarian. "And who will you be," he demanded witheringly, "that dares to be speaking to the McDuff in such a fashion? Who will you be, indeed?"
"There has been no mistake," McDuff angrily returned. "I never make mistakes. Only eighty boxes were sent to me, and six cents is all they were worth. You can take that or nothing. I am too busy to waste all the morning talking. Here's your money," and he held out four dollars and eighty cents to Rod. "Don't take it, lad," and the captain reached out a restraining hand.
"Can I do anything for you, sir?" she enquired, outwardly calm, but inwardly quaking. He took off his big straw hat and made her a profound bow. "I'll be Peter McDuff," he said with a stately air, "an' I'll loss a pig." "I I don't think it's here," faltered Helen, dismayed at a visit from the notorious McDuff. "You might ask some other place," she suggested hopefully.
"You can't use my phone," McDuff cried, feeling sure that the captain had some special object in view. "I can't, eh? Well, if you say so, that settles it. I kin git one next door. I only want to call up my lawyer, that's all. He knows me pretty well. I'd like to use other means to settle this matter, but I guess Lawyer Allen's advice might be the better way."
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