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Jane and Walter, after many "prave 'orts" about climbing the ridge behind Drogmulla, contented themselves with a minor ascent of a knoll about fifty feet high, while the Lancer, reckless in his increasing activity, managed to trip over his crutches and give himself an extremely unfortunate fall. Monday, October 2.
Was this but an idle boast, or was it one of those flashes of conviction which are never belied, lighting up our future for one lurid instant, and then fading into darkness? "I do not doubt it, my prave poy," said Dr. Morgan, growing exceedingly Welsh in his excitement; "and perhaps you may find a father, who " "Father! who is he, what is he? He lives, then!
Hambright, sorely wounded, his boot overflowing with blood and his hat riddled with three bullet holes, declined to dismount, but pressed gallantly forward, exclaiming in his "Pennsylvania Dutch": "Huzza, my prave poys, fight on a few minutes more, and the pattle will be over!"
The leek had to be eaten at last: why, after so many "prave 'ords" of superiority and defiance, confess that the eating of it had been more than half foreseen all along? 6th.
"I haf one great fright," said he. "Send him into the common with the women in yere place, Mis' McChesney," growled Cowan, who was loading. "By tam!" said Swein Poulsson, leaping to his feet, "I vill stay here und fight. I am prave once again." Stooping down, he searched under the bed, pulled out his rifle, powdered the pan, and flying to the other port, fired.
These were "prave 'orts," but I felt doleful enough when I re-entered the chambers where I had lived in uncomplaining luxury for fourteen years. "There's no help for it," I murmured.
"And that is the truth," said he. "I am fery prave myself, and pold as a lions. But to stand up there and you ken naething of fence! the way that you did, I declare it was peyond me. And I am sorry for the plow; though I declare I pelief your own was the elder brother, and my held still sings with it.
We fished up every trout again, and we shot our first day on the moor again with Peter Stewart, Kilspindie's head keeper, as fine an old Highlander as ever lived. Stewart said in the evening, 'You 're a pair of prave boys, as becometh your fathers' sons, and Sandie gave him two and fourpence he had scraped for a tip, but I had only one and elevenpence we were both kept bare.
"I haf one great fright," said he. "Send him into the common with the women in yere place, Mis' McChesney," growled Cowan, who was loading. "By tam!" said Swein Poulsson, leaping to his feet, "I vill stay here und fight. I am prave once again." Stooping down, he searched under the bed, pulled out his rifle, powdered the pan, and flying to the other port, fired.
"Tat you haf tone it yourself, ten, Malcolm? My prave poy!" "No, daddy; I took my licks like a man, for I deserved them." "Deserfed to pe peaten, Malcolm to pe peaten like a tog? Ton't tell her tat! Ton't preak her heart, my poy." "It wasna that muckle, daddy. I only telled him auld Horny was at 's lug." "And she'll make no toubt it was true," cried Duncan, emerging sudden from his despondency.
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