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The uproar alarmed the garrison in the blockhouse. The sergeant of the guard was sent out, with a few soldiers, to ascertain the cause of the disorder. He returned with the report that it was only the revelry of a band of drunken savages. One of the soldiers in the fort, Jansen Stot, called upon some of his comrades to follow him. Ensign Smith, who was in command, forbade them to go.
"Tat's a fine way of mine, when I can get behint a mon. I've killt mony a stot like it, shoost t' keep in the way of it." And he stabbed the air, twisted his wrist, and clicked delightedly. The men dumped the body near the fire. One of them stooped down and was for putting his hand in the man's pocket, but drew it back as if he had thrust it by mischance into the flames. Then I knew.
"A crown to Hector as fee for fishing out the black stot that broke its neck over the rocks." "A letter from Utrecht from my son Hector; a fair hand and a sensible diction." "Forty pounds over and above paid to please Hector on the bond over the flax-fields of Ferndean." "A small stipend secured to my thriftless kinsman, Willie Hamilton, by the advice and with the aid of my son Hector."
In his rich and unabashed accent he had long discarded his Edinburgh-English he dissected their arguments and ridiculed their character. He had once been famous for his soapy manners: now he was as rough as a Highland stot. Things could not go on in this fashion: the risk was too great.
I had already remarked that Andie was continually on the point of quarrelling with our three Macgregors, and now, sure enough, it was to come. "Thir will be no words to use to shentlemans," says Neil. "Shentlemans!" cries Andie. "Shentlemans, ye hielant stot! If God would give ye the grace to see yoursel' the way that ithers see ye, ye would throw your denner up."
I had already remarked that Andie was continually on the point of quarrelling with our three Macgregors, and now, sure enough, it was to come. "Thir will be no words to use to shentlemans," says Neil. "Shentlemans!" cries Andie. "Shentlemans, ye Hielant stot! If God would gie ye the grace to see yoursel' the way that ithers see ye, ye would throw your denner up."
But Honnor Cunyngham well, the only time I ever went with her on one of her storking expeditions, the water was low, and she thrashed away for hours, and saw nothing. At last a stot happened to come wandering along; and she said, quite savagely, 'I'm going to hook something! You don't know what a stot is? it's a young bullock.
She thought a little, and said, "I think you must be taking me up wrong; my man was never at the trade of reiving, and " "I would never hint that he was, goodwife," cried John, quickly, puzzled-looking himself. "I said I had a name for the thing; but they were no friends of mine who gave me the credit, and I never stole stot or quey in all my life."
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