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Updated: June 17, 2025
In this hollow, which was covered with short, sweet grass, stood a very small hut, built of turf from the peat-moss below, and roofed with sods on which the heather still stuck, if, indeed, some of it was not still growing. So much was it, therefore, of the colour of the ground about it, that it scarcely caught the eye.
There was no more merriment that night. A search party was at once organized by the younger men, who started with lanterns and some of their collies to the peat-moss. All that night the anxious mother kept weary vigil, while the men-folk searched the hill. Day broke, and no trace had been found of the lost child. Weary and sad, the men returned for some needful rest and others took their places.
Come!" gasped Sercombe at length, after many attempts to get out which, the bystanders easily foiled " you don't mean to drown me, do you?" "We mean to drown your bad language. Promise to use no more on this peat-moss," returned Rob. "Damn the promise you get from me!" he gasped.
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