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Lord Selkirk remained for several weeks supervising the work. Then, leaving the colony in charge of an agent, he set out to make a tour of Canada and the United States. Meanwhile, Selkirk's agents in Scotland were not idle. During the same summer a hundred and eleven emigrants were mustered at Tobermory, a harbour town on the island of Mull. Most of them were natives of the island.
If anything was to be done by the Russian spy it should be done quickly, and Doodles did not refrain from expressing his opinion that his friend was "putting his foot into it," and "making a mull of the whole thing." Now Archie Clavering was a man not eaten up by the vice of self-confidence, but prone rather to lean upon his friends, and anxious for the aid of counsel in difficulty.
Maclean, the Laird, has very extensive possessions, being proprietor, not only of far the greater part of Col, but of the extensive Island of Rum, and a very considerable territory in Mull. Rum is one of the larger Islands, almost square, and therefore of great capacity in proportion to its sides.
Do you know Mackinnon's cave in Mull, opposite Iona? 'Yes, drive on! said Merton, much interested. 'Well, inside it was pitched an empty corrugated iron house, quite new, and another, on the further side, outside the cave. 'I picked up this in the interior of the cave, said Lady Bude. 'This' was a golden hair-pin of peculiar make. 'That's the kind of hair-pin she wears, said Lady Bude.
There was the roar of a report, a flash of flame, as Reddy Mull, hand thrust in through the partially open doorway, fired a wild scream, as the shot, meant for him, Jimmie Dale, found another mark directly behind where he had been standing and English Dick, reeling to his feet, pitched forward over the table, carrying the table with him to the floor.
"Into my room," she cried, "I'll show you the way." Eight strong hands took hold and two minutes later the boy lay on the flowered cover of her bed. It was far too short for him, but it stood, soft and comfortable, hidden by white mull curtains in a corner of her simple room. He was summoned back to full consciousness, tapped, auscultated and examined.
You see I've only three men in the vessel besides myself; they are in three watches; so your duty will be to attend to me in the cabin. You'll mull my claret I always drinks a noggin every half-hour to keep the wind out, and if it an't ready and an't good do you see this?"
BOSWELL. See ante, i. 26. Though Mull is, as Johnson says, the third island of the Hebrides in extent, there was no post there. Piozzi Letters, i. 170. This observation is very just. The time for the Hebrides was too late by a month or six weeks. I have heard those who remembered their tour express surprise they were not drowned. The Charmer, a Collection of Songs Scotch and English.
By timing your own arrival well, nothing will be easier than to get him fairly under your guns, and once under your guns, the brig must give up. When you chased her out of this very port, a few days since, you would have brought her up could you have kept her within range of those terrible shells ten minutes longer." "You would then advise my not sailing from this place immediately," said Mull.
At the corner, where the halls met, he halted to listen. Only the low hum of voices came up. "Larry, I must tell you," whispered Allie. "Durade and his gang are after me. Fresno Mull Black Dayss you know them?" "I reckon," he replied, swallowing hard. "My Gawd! you poor little girl! With that gang after you! An' Stanton!
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