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Updated: May 20, 2025
"It's going to snow " she said, as she stood beside him, surprised by the sound of her own voice amid the roar of the wind. "Aye it's onding o' snaw " said the shepherd, his shrewd blue eyes travelling over her face and form. "An' it'll mappen be a rough night." "Are you taking your sheep into shelter?" He pointed to a half-ruined fold, with three sycamores beside it, a stone's throw away.
"That's the salt, for we're at the sea here, the mighty ocean. He keepit repeatin' the word ower in his mouth. "The salt, the salt, I've heard tell o' it afore, but I dinna like it. It's terrible cauld and unhamely." By this time an onding o' rain was coming up' frae the water, and I bade the man come indoors to the fire.
"I was at Tilliedrum yestreen, meeting Sanders as he got out o' the gaol, and that awfu onding began when we was on the Bellies Braes. We focht our way through it, but not a soul did we meet; and wha would gang out the day that can bide at hame? Ay, but Effie says it's kent in Thrums that Mr. Dishart has run off wi' wi' an Egyptian."
I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched. It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, "onding on snaw," canopied all; thence flakes felt it intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.
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