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But now he was set up again by gorging for an hour, and chattered as if he had done a great thing. There must have been miles of rough walking through woods, and tangles, and craggy and black boggy hollows, until we arrived at a wide open space where two streams ran into one another. "Thic be Oare watter," said the boy, "and t'other over yonner be Badgefry.
The Americans may be more kind and generous, and perhaps my father thought so, and brought me here for that reason. And I may be glad to come back to you again when I have done what I am bound to do. Remember that I am the last of seven children, and do not even know where the rest are buried." "Now look straight afore you, missy. What do you see yonner?"
If your scheme succeed, we shall not require to make any more cord. What we have will be sufficient. Let us make trial at once!" "Where is the bearcoot?" asked Caspar, looking around to discover the bird. "Yonner be he, young sahib," answered Ossaroo, pointing towards the precipice; "yonner sitee he ober da rock."
Ef yonner two squattin' out from the rest 'ill jest stay thur till the shades o' night gie me a chance o' stealin' clost enuf, thar's one o' 'em will never see daylight again." "Ah!" exclaimed Hamersley, with a sigh of despair, and yet half hopeful, "if they would but remain there till night, we might still head them into the valley, time enough to get our friends away."
"He rase, an' teuk up 's bannet, an' loupit the hedge, an' gae a blast upo' 's horn, an' gethered his men, an' steppit aboord his boat, ower by Puffie Heid yonner, an' awa to Norrowa' ower the faem, 'an was never hard tell o' in Scotlan' again. "Sae things gaed on as afore, till at len'th the tide o' her time was weel past the turn, an' a streak o' the snaw in her coal black hair.
I no see dat someting yet. We sure see de long snout, by 'm by." "The long snout! what do you mean by that, Snowy?" "Wha do a mean? de long-nose a mean. Tole ye so! dar he be yonner, right on de la'bord quarter. Dis nigger knew he no far off. Da's why de beauties hab come roun de raff; an dat I hope keep um hyar till we hab cotch a few ob dem!"
Guy exclaimed, with a start, in profound excitement. "That's the fellow, sure enough. I know him. I know him. And where is he now, landlord? Is he in the house? Can I see him?" "Well, no, 'ee can't zee him, zur," the landlord answered, eyeing the stranger askance; "he be out, jest at present. He do go vur a walk, mostly, down yonner in the bottom alongside the brook.
An' the Widow Maloney she 'tended 'im like a mither, she did." "Did you find out where he came from?" "Wull, he said little aboot 'imsel' at the first, he was a bit afraid to talk wi' strangers, but he tellit, later on, that he cam' fra Philadelphy. He tellit me, in fact," said Billy, in a burst of confidence, "that 'e rin awa' fra th'auld mon, Simon Craft, him that's a-settin' yonner.
"O Lor', O Lor'!" repeats Orundelico, shivering from crown to toe. Too late now get pass um. They meet us yonner. We must run to hills; hide in woods."
Tom and myself, nothing loth, obeyed the hint, and sipped our modicums of distilled waters out of our private flasks. "Now, then," cried Archer, "let us pick up these scattering birds. Tom Draw, you can get yours without a dog! And now, Tim, where are yours?" "T' first lies oop yonner in yon boonch of brachens, ahint t' big scarlet maple; and t' other " "Well! I'll go to the first. You take Mr.
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