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It was understood that Nestie's mother was dead and that his father was the Baptist minister of Muirtown a denomination whose adherents were few and whose practices were vaguely associated with the mill lade and for two years before he appeared at school Nestie and his father were quite familiar to the boys.
I'll j-just tell you something about it, but it'll make you creepy," and then all the circle gathered in round Nestie. He's got the c-cane on the table." At this point Speug, who had been listening with much doubt to Nestie's account, and knew that he had a luxuriant imagination, interfered.
He also astonished his son by offering to lay a sovereign on Nestie coming in first and half a length ahead, which was not so much based upon any knowledge of Nestie's literary qualifications as on the strange friendship between Nestie and his promising son. As the respectable Free Kirk elder who sat next Mr. McGuffie did not respond to this friendly offer, Mr.
Nor had Peter boasted vainly of his wood lore, for he led them by so direct a way that, before they came to the place of flowers, the expedition except the two little chaps, whom Speug sent round in Nestie's charge, to a selected rendezvous as being next door to babies had climbed five dykes, all with loose stones, fought through three thickets very prickly indeed, crawled underneath two hedges, crossed three burns, one coming up to the knees, and mired themselves times without number.
"Is 'Nestie' drowned?" and they all noticed the break in Bulldog's voice, and remembered that if he showed indulgence to anyone it was to the little English lad that had appeared in Muirtown life as one out of due place. "No, sir, Nestie's safe, and some women have taken him home; but he was very nearly gone," and Dunc was plainly shaken.
Molyneux," began Bulldog in a stern voice, "I'm willing to manage Nestie's estate, big or small, and I'll give an account of all intromissions to the Court, but I must decline to look out a home for Nestie. My house has just an auld schoolmaster and an housekeeper in it, and whiles we would like to hear a young voice." Bulldog paused and then went on, his voice sterner than ever in sound.
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