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I asked her if she picked them herself. "Och thin and shure I've the childher to do that saam," said she. And what wonderful music must the voice of her youth have been! It was deep of intonation and heartfelt, rich and smooth and thrilling yet, after fifty years of poverty and toil. "And id's enough of thim that's in id!" she added, with a curious air of satisfaction and reflectiveness.
To this David used to reply, with a sigh, "Ah, hinny, thou kenn'st little o't; but that saam John Scrimgeour, that blew open the gates of heaven as an it had been wi' a sax-pund cannonball, used devoutly to wish that most part of books were burnt, except the Bible.
"At prisint they saam to be the only ones, but we can't be sure that ithers wouldn't have tried to do the same." "Well, boys," was the surprising announcement of Jeff Graham, "to-morrow we leave this place for good and take the next steamer down the Yukon for home; our hunt for gold is done!" There was little sleep that night in the cavern home of the gold-seekers.
To this David used to reply, with a sigh, "Ah, hinny, thou kenn'st little o't; but that saam John Scrimgeour, that blew open the gates of heaven as an it had been wi' a sax-pund cannonball, used devoutly to wish that most part of books were burnt, except the Bible.
We saw nothing of the kind," pursued Howard. The fellow looked too full of indignation to speak. "What is getting into your heads? Ye saam to be losing your sinses intirely." "And I can say I saw none of them touch you." "Then you was blind," was the indignant retort. "Ye harrd him sing out at me heels, didn't you?"
"It's a lang story to tell but the upshot is, that it's a scrape of an auld accompt due to my father's yestate by her Majesty the king's maist gracious mother, when she lived in the Castle, and had sundry providings and furnishings forth of our booth, whilk nae doubt was an honour to my father to supply, and whilk, doubtless, it will be a credit to his Majesty to satisfy, as it will be grit convenience to me to receive the saam."
"But the woods saam to be full of thim; there may be some kind of an Indian war that has broke out and these are the first part of the rid army that is to coom down and swaap us over the Rocky Mountains." But Fred could not share in this prodigious fear. He faced to the front again and laughed, as he resumed his walk.
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