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"Yes, father; I have been hesitating between Moorcock and Black Adder, but I thought you would like the black." "No, my boy, I have made up my mind to have Thunder." "I think I'll take Moorcock all the same," said Scarlett, thoughtfully. "He will suit you better now. Two years hence, I should have said take Black Adder." "Why not take 'em both, Master Scarlett?" said Nat, respectfully.
Did not Stamp point out to him a water-ouzel, with impudently jerking tail, dipping and wading in the shallows of the stream? Did not Moorcock find him a water-rail's nest, hidden in a tuft of reeds and grass, with ten, yellowish, speckled eggs in it?
After climbing up and down one or two heights, occasionally startling the moorcock and ptarmigan from their heathery coverts, we saw the valley of Loch Con; while in the middle of the plain on the top of the mountain we had ascended, was a sheet of water which we took to be Loch Ackill. Two or three wild fowl swimming on its surface were the only living things in sight.
Sir Godfrey gave his horse a final pat on his fine arching neck, and walked back out of the stall, to stand gazing full at his man, who slipped off his hat, and drew himself up awkwardly in soldierly fashion. Then, without a word, and to Nat's dismay, he turned to his son. "Yes," he said; "take Moorcock, my boy, and the stoutest saddle and bridle you can find."
Ay, she took up the milk and drank, and I took my ways, and they came running to Glen Darruach to tell me she had died. "Oh, oh! the dark, the dark, and never more the sun shining on the bonny blooms of dark Darruach, never mair the white lambs running, and the gleam on the wing of the moorcock.
She could listen to the surf in the storm, and the ripple in the calm, to the cry of the gull and the wh-r-r of the moorcock; pull wild thyme, and pick up rose-tinted shells and perforated stones; and watch shyly her hardy cottar servants cutting peats and tying up flax, and even caught snatches of their rude Border lore of raid and foray under doughty Homes, who wore steel cap and breastplate.
After climbing up and down one or two heights, occasionally startling the moorcock and ptarmigan from their heathery coverts, we saw the valley of Loch Con, while in the middle of the plain on the top of the mountain we had ascended was a sheet of water which we took to be Loch Ackill. Two or three wild-fowl swimming on its surface were the only living things in sight.
H was a sportsman; but that it afforded his wife great pleasure to inform her guests, that a certain moorcock was killed by her dear Fabian, or that he had caught the pike which then graced their table, for, she would add complacently, her Fabian was well aware that she took great delight in eating the game taken by his skillful hand.
And thence, while Ormiston and Mary sauntered slowly on ahead, the men Winter in mufti, oblivious of plate-cleaning and cellarage, and the onerous duties of his high estate, Stamp, the water-bailiff, and Moorcock, one of the under-keepers had carried him across the great green levels.
"Coming, Master Scar;" and Nat hurried into the stables to find his young master standing beside the light cob his father often rode. "Hullo, Master Scar, sir, thinking about having Moorcock?" "Yes, Nat. My father is sure not to take him for his charger, and he would suit me exactly." "Well, yes, sir, I dare say he would. But why not have Black Adder?"
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