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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Is there not a great pile of peats, carried on my own back from the moss! Ach, you robbers! Would you burn the good peats?" "What good will the peats be to you, woman," said one of them not unkindly, "when you have no hearth?" She gave a loud wail, but checked it. "I will burn them on the road," she said. "They will keep me a few hours from the dark!
So she lay down on the widow's bed, and slept soundly, her hungry hostess sitting by the smouldering peats in the rude fireplace, now and then smiling at the idea of her guest's late zeal about watching the lamp for her, in order to give her a good night's rest.
Tamsel, Wilkersdorf, Klein Kamin, Gross Kamin, and other places known to us, lie on the dry turf-fuel country, but looking over close upon the hem of that marsh-fringe, and no doubt getting peats, wild ducks, pike-fishes, eels, and snatches of summer pasture and cow-hay out of it."
We had not proceeded far, however, before we found that our cave was too small, and that as we should have to remain in it for hours, we must find it very cramped. Therefore, instead of using any more of the peats already pulled out, we finished building up the wall with others fresh drawn from the inside.
Why can't you say you won't meet Wiston!" His face cleared. "Well, that's the fact I won't. It would be too infernally unpleasant. You see, I was once by way of being his friend, and he was in my regiment. I couldn't do it." The landlord came in at the moment with a basket of peats. "How long is Capt. Mr. Wiston staying here?" I asked. "He's no bidin' ony time.
But it was only Ebie Farrish that had him by the roll of ancient cloth which served as a collar for Jock's coat. When he was pulled from under the peats and set upon his feet, he gazed around with a bewildered look. "O man, Ebie Farrish," he said solemnly, "If I didna think ye war the deil himsel' ye see what it is to be misled by ootward appearances!"
"Are you not aware you are trespassing on my land, Macruadh?" cried the new laird, across several holes full of black water which obstructed his nearer approach. "On the contrary, Mr. Palmer," replied the chief, "I am perfectly aware that I am not!" "You have no right to cut peats there without my permission!"
A large fire of peats in the huge chimney at the upper end shed a dim light through the apartment, and was rendered necessary by the damp, by which, even during the summer, the apartment was rendered uncomfortable.
This dislodged a few of the topmost of the peats which the poor old thing had been a long way to fetch. She heard them fall, and one of them struck her foot. She started up, almost in a rage. "Sir! sir! my peats!" she cried. "What would you be throwing away the good peats into the dark for, letting that swallow them they should swallow!"
The winter was drawing on, but there would be the oats and the potatoes, with what kail the garden would yield them, and they had, he thought, plenty of peats. Yet not unfrequently, as he wandered aimless through the dreary silence, he would be speculating how long, by a judiciously ordered consumption of the place, he could keep his father warm.
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