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Updated: June 10, 2025
He knew who she was; this must be Honnor Cunyngham, Lady Adela's sister-in-law; and of course he did not wish to intrude on the young lady's privacy; he would try to pass by behind her unobserved, though here the strath narrowed until it was almost a defile. He was soon relieved from all anxiety. Sharper eyes than his own had perceived him.
It was after Miss Honnor had industriously but unsuccessfully fished the Horseshoe and the Cormorant Pool that she chanced to be regarding that mountainous line along the sky; and she then perceived that one of those far shoulders was gradually changing from a sombre blue into a soft and pearly gray. "Do you see the veil that has come over the high peak yonder?" she asked of her companion.
At last he drew out of the sack a sheet of pasteboard, with string attached, and hung it on the wall. It bore the simple message, rudely lettered in black, as follows: "Mery Crismus. And Children i have the honnor to remane, Yours Respec'fully SANDY CLAUS." His work done, he swung the pack to his shoulders and made off as they all broke the silence with a hearty "Thank you, Santa Claus!"
"Good heavens, Miss Honnor!" he exclaimed but instantly he caught her hand, and she rose to her feet and began to shake the water from her as best she might. "What do you mean?"
"The creature came out of the rough water like a flash of lightning I only saw the splash his tail made as he went down again. But what are you going to do, Miss Honnor? Shall I run down the strath and tell old Robert to hurry back?" "Not at all! we'll manage him by ourselves," she replied, confidently. "Here, you take him, and I'll gaff him for you."
But suddenly there was a short, sharp scream of the reel; then silence. "What is it, Robert?" she said apparently holding on to something. "Another sea-trout?" "Oh, no, Miss Honnor, I am not thinking that " The words were hardly out of his mouth when it became abundantly clear that the unknown creature in the deeps had not the least intention of concealing his identity.
Honnor Cunyngham said nothing; it was her mother who at once and good-naturedly assented; and when they had descended from the carriage they forthwith made their way down to mix in this idle throng.
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.
Once, at the tail of the Rock Pool, you wound up, and said to him, 'Well, I can't do any better than that, Robert; and then he said, 'No man ever fished that pool better oh, I beg your pardon, Miss Honnor; no one at all ever fished that pool better. I suppose Strathaivron is nothing to you you must be so familiar with it but to me it is a sort of wonderland, to dream of when I am all by myself at night "
The end of it was that the beast shook off the fly for itself, and old Robert found it; but I wonder whether it were real rage that made Honnor Cunyngham hook the stot " "Of course not!" he said. "It was a mere piece of fun."
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