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Springing tremulously from his seat, the very embodiment of abused confidence and wrath, he exclaimed: "Well! Hit's come ter dis, is it? One o' ole marster's chillen settin' up makin' spote o' me ter my face! I didn't spect it of yer, Marse John I did not.
It iss a grand spote for birds to fly over, an' there's plenty o' ducks an' geese, so we may count on soon gettin' enough to fill the larder to overflow." "Ay, there's plenty o' birds," remarked Mowat, with the absent air of a man whose mind is running on some other theme. MacSweenie was a keen sportsman, and dearly loved a day with his gun.
"Are ve near to zee spote?" asked the professor, glancing from side to side in some anxiety. "Not far from it!" replied the hermit, "but there is not much fear of such an attack in broad daylight and with so large a party." "Ve are not a very large party," returned the professor. "I do not zink I would fear much to face a tiger vid my goot rifle, but I do not relish his choomping on me unavares.
"Are ve near to zee spote?" asked the professor, glancing from side to side in some anxiety. "Not far from it!" replied the hermit, "but there is not much fear of such an attack in broad daylight and with so large a party." "Ve are not a very large party," returned the professor. "I do not zink I would fear much to face a tiger vid my goot rifle, but I do not relish his choomping on me unavares.
"Weel, it's no' that bad as a spote," answered the keeper, with a grim smile, for he had not much opinion of Barret's spirit as a sportsman; "but it's ackward as the lawnd lies." "Never mind. I'll stay here, and you know, laird, that I have some pleasant associations with it in connection with your niece." "That is more than Milly has," returned the old gentleman, laughing.
"It's a peautiful spote this!" observed Angus, after a few preliminary puffs. Angus made no rejoinder for a few minutes, but continued to puff great clouds with considerable emphasis from his compressed lips. Mr Ravenshaw returned the fire with interest. "It'll no pe for sellin' the knowl, ye are?" said Angus. The demon was fairly roused now.
Farther along the table, Tam was already breast-deep in the stream of conversation. In answer to some question, he was replying that he had been only twelve months in the colonies. "And what part of the Land o' Cakes are you from?" I asked, wantonly, but civilly. "A'm frae Dumfriessheer frae a spote they ca' Ecchelfechan," he replied complacently.
At the humans' dinner-time he scorned their expensive fare and sneaked away into the shadows of the garden to wait for Ringtail Pete and the rising of the moon. It rose; and, as it peeped above the wall, there also rose a cautious signal-wail, and Pete's one eye glowed green among the ivy-vines. "Hi, spote!" grinned the owner of the eye, as Omar Ben clawed his way to a perch beside him.
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