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"What wud ye sae, Jamie," Hillocks suggested, "but it micht be some o' thae Muirtown doctors? they were awfu' chief wi' MacLure." "It's nae Muirtown doctors," cried Jamie, in great exultation, "nor ony ither doctors. A' ken thae horses, and wha's ahind them. Quick, man, Hillocks, stop the fouk, and tell Drumsheugh tae come oot, for Lord Kilspindie hes come up frae Muirtown Castle."
A've a mind to go back an' have him oot; but that pot ash pate " what else the old man called her was more truthful than elegant for an expurgated age. They replaced the post of the barbed wire gate in its loop and mounted their horses. "Well, Sir?" asked Wayland. "I don't wish to offend your British sense of law; but which way now?" The old man left the reins hanging on the broncho's neck.
"No! but the wind was blawin' from the back, ye see; and when ye came up behind the smoke curled up a bit further and straighter than it did before; then there was just the ghost o' a shadow." I laughed. "You are an observant customer." "Oh, ay! I'm a' that. Come round and let me see ye." I obeyed, and he seemed satisfied with his inspection. "Sit doon, oot o' the smoke," he said. I did so.
"Now, lads," said Donald, "I must pe going. It's gettin late, and I must find oot my brother Tuncan Gorm, as decen' a lad as between this and Eddernahulish." Having said this, and paid his reckoning, Donald began shaking hands with his friends, one after the other, previous to leaving them; but his friends had no intention whatever of parting with him in this way.
"Auld Cabbage-heid didna' like me looking at Peter Rundell an' that's the way he gied me four, but I'll get a horse's hair too, an' his tawse 'll soon get wheegh. He's awful cruel, Rab," he said, turning to Robert, "an' ye'd better look oot." Each and all had some fearful story to tell of the cruelty of the headmaster, and all swore they'd get even with him.
"I would often tak it oot an' look at it. Ay, an' I would aye ken it was there." "But naebody would ken ye had it but yersel," said Hendry, who had a vague notion that this was a telling objection. "Would they no?" answered Jess. "It would be a' through the toon afore nicht." "Weel, all I can say," said Hendry, "is 'at ye're terrible foolish to tak the want o' sic a useless thing to heart."
He shook off his pursuers and turned on a wide circle, crossed the enemy's line on the Vimy Ridge and came back across the black coal-fields near Billy-Montigny. But his attempt to run the gauntlet and to cross Lille from the eastward met with no better success, and he escaped via Menin and the Ypres salient. "Ma luck's oot," he reported glumly.
There was ower muckle preachin', and some of the ladies looked at us as if we were dirt, responded Teen candidly. 'Ye should hae heard Liz when we cam' oot. It was as guid as a play to hear her imitatin' them. Gladys looked thoughtful, and a trifle distressed. Curiously, at the moment she could not help thinking of the many societies and associations with which Mrs.
Then, leaning forward in his chair and glaring at the girl, "Ay, and mair than that! The night the lad set on me he cam'" with hissing emphasis "straight from Kenmuir!" He paused and stared at her intently, and she was still dumb before him. "Gin I'd ben killed, Wullie'd ha' bin disqualified from competin' for the Cup. With Adam M'Adam's Red Wull oot o' the way noo d'ye see? Noo d'ye onderstan'?"
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