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I'm quite tired of hammering and hammering, hewing and screwing, cutting and butting, at that little boat of ours, that seems as hard to build as Noah's ark. Let us go on an excursion to the mountain-top, or have a hunt after the wild-ducks, or make a dash at the pigs. I'm quite flat flat as bad ginger-beer flat as a pancake; in fact, I want something to rouse me, to toss me up, as it were.
"Even so," said the falconer; "yonder stands Auld Reekie you may see the smoke hover over her at twenty miles' distance, as the gosshawk hangs over a plump of young wild-ducks ay, yonder is the heart of Scotland, and each throb that she gives is felt from the edge of Solway to Duncan's-bay-head.
"Not long arrived in this part of the world, lad, I suppose?" he said, in a tone which showed he was very indifferent as to what answer he might receive. "It is possible that you may pass your time pleasantly enough here, if you are not troubled with the ague, and are fond of the music of frogs and wild-ducks. From what part of the world do you come, I ask?"
As the root crops came in, the rage began for thinning the hedges and grubbing the double mounds and killing the young timber, besides putting in the drains and driving away the wild-ducks. The wicked turnip put diamonds on the fingers of the farmer's wife, and presently raised his rent.
"Why, no use is all in all," said the more experienced lawyer, "I am much interested certainly, but I think I shall be able to survive the interval, if the ladies will afford us some music." "And with the assistance of the wild-ducks, by and by?" suggested Mannering. So saying, he rose and led the way into the next room, where Miss Mannering, at his request, took her seat at the harpsichord.
She learned to hold a frenzied fox-terrier at the mouth of a hollow log, ready to pounce on the kangaroo-rat which had taken refuge there, and which flashed out as if shot from a catapult on being poked from the other end with a long stick. She learned to mark the hiding-place of the young wild-ducks that scuttled and dived, and hid themselves with such super-natural cunning in the reedy pools.
The King, who was always an early riser, was up betimes in the morning; and on Colonel Glover representing to him his sorrow for the mean manner in which he had of necessity been lodged, answered airily that he was better off there than in the Oak, or in Holland, without a styver in his pocket; "Although, oddsfish!" quoth his Majesty, "this Castle of mine seems fitter to harbour wild-ducks than Christians."
He looked older certainly, and very careworn, but his eye was as bright as ever and his voice as cheery. "Come and dine with me," he said after we had given each other a hurried account of our present abodes and occupations. "You will find me in rather modest and decidedly airy lodgings, and I cannot offer you either wild-ducks or venison.
'That along the passages of your palace, You shall move for ten thousand years, And there will be granted to you for ever dignity and posterity. How as to your posterity? How is it attached? 'There is given you a heroic wife. The wild-ducks and widgeons are on the King ; That is, the guests, visitors, and officers of the court.
He had shot in the course of his walk some young wild-ducks, as, though CLOSE TIME was then unknown, the broods of grouse were yet too young for the sportsman. His countenance was decidedly Scottish, with all the peculiarities of the northern physiognomy, but yet had so little of ifs harshness and exaggeration, that it would have been pronounced in any country extremely handsome.
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