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But as to the other well, let us ask the Prince. 'He hath a Princess, and she is oft upon her travels? Ho! ho! ho!" And the lout shook among his straw to such an extent that I bade him for God's dear sake to bide still, otherwise we might as lief lie in a barn among questing rattons. "And the saints of your Saints' Rest defend us from lying among any worse!" said he, and betook him to sleep.
The science of war what little I learned of it in the Low Countries with gentlemen esteemed my betters convinces me that if a big enough horde fall on from the rim of our ashet, as I call it, they might sweep us into the loch like rattons."
Then he turned to me and laid a hand on my arm. "Ye think there's naething there?" he said, pointing with his pipe; and then cried out aloud, with a kind of exultation: "I'll tell ye, man! The deid are down there thick like rattons!" He turned at once, and, without another word, we retraced our steps to the house of Aros.
Upon which, as if stirred by some association of ideas, Meg added that she would go none to Marnhoul Big Hoose, "because not a soul would come near the place." It did not matter whether she believed in Grey Ladies with rain-drops pattering through them or not other people did, and she would not be banished "among the clocks and rattons" no, not for double wages!
"One Sunday mornin', just afore th' sarvice began, some o' th' singers slipt a hawp'oth o' grey peighs an' two young rattons into old Thwittler double-bass; an' as soon as he began a-playin', th' little things squeak't an' scutter't about terribly i' th' inside, till thrut o' out o' tune.
Then he turned to me and laid a hand on my arm. 'Ye think there's naething there? he said, pointing with his pipe; and then cried out aloud, with a kind of exultation: 'I'll tell ye, man! The deid are down there thick like rattons! He turned at once, and, without another word, we retraced our steps to the house of Aros.
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