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"Oh! mad as a March hare!" fussed his host, running into the house. "Mad, sure enough. Must send off a boy for the doctor." But Watty's news was true.
I wonder how many generations a man must be removed from Scotland before he becomes callous to the disposition of the family name. I own that I squirmed inwardly, but with outward composure asked Belle where Mary got the "bike." "Watty's old one. He taught Mary to ride it, and then made her a present of it, for he's set his heart on a new wheel." "Confoundedly generous of him!"
When Watty's mind resumed its office, its owner found himself in a comfortable berth between warm blankets with a hot bottle at his feet, and the taste of hot brandy-and-water in his mouth. A man with a rough hairy visage was gazing earnestly into his face. "Wall, youngster, I guess," said the man, "that you'd pretty nigh slipped your cable."
At sunset we landed at Watty's Brook, a small stream flowing into Grand Lake from the north, and some twenty miles above the rapid. Our progress during the day had been slow, as the wind had died away and we had, several times, to wait for Duncan to overtake us in his slower rowboat.
Into the former flow the Susan and Beaver Rivers, while into the latter empties the water of the Nascaupee and Crooked Rivers. Besides these there are two small streams, the Cape Corbeau River on the south, and Watty's Brook on the north shore.
If a bushman's horse ran away with him the chances were that he'd be thrown on to Watty's veranda, if he wasn't pitched into the bar; and victims of accidents, and sick, hard-up shearers, were generally carried to Watty's pub, as being the most convenient and comfortable for them. Mitchell denied that it was generosity or good nature on Watty's part, he said it was all business advertisement.
"Every girl in town doesn't skate with barber, or bandsman, or anybody who comes along, as you do." "Watty's been telling!" "Watty hasn't been telling!" broke in our eldest son in indignant protest, which he further emphasized by going out and banging the door after him. "And, Mary," Belle continued, "are you engaged to Mr. Axworthy?" "No!" sullenly.
After Reginald had been charmed a while, it would be the glass eater's turn. Which he really eat it, and the doctor says that kind always dies before they is fifty. I never knowed his right name, but what he went by was The Human Ostrich. Watty's wife was awful jealous of Mrs. Ostrich, fur she got the idea she was carrying on with Watty.
Mrs Woods tried to draw Jack out, but it was no use, and in the evening he commenced drinking, and that made Billy uneasy. "I'm afraid Jack's on the wrong track," he said. After tea most of us collected about Watty's veranda. Most things that happened in Bourke happened at Watty's pub, or near it.
Now, my darling, if it should please Him to send me cruising to to anywhere in a different direction from you, and you chanced ever to be in England alone in Scotland, that is at your own home, you must go to Bailie Trench you know him our old friend and helper when we were in shoal water, my dear, and say to him that I handed all my savings over to Mr Wilkins that's Watty's father, Poll to be invested in the way he thought best.
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