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The Covenanters were moving around the foot of the Pentland hills, a few miles from Edinburgh, when General Dalziel, with 3000 of the king's troops, emerged from a pass behind them, and offered battle. Wallace accepted the challenge. He formed his men for action on the hillside, having the advantage of the higher ground.
"Where is he stopping?" "Over at Pentland. He is sick at the hotel there." "It's lucky for you I was out to-night. I ain't often out so late but I went to see a friend of mine, and stayed later than I meant to." "Do you live near here?" "I live about a quarter of a mile up this lane." "Do you know what time it is?" "I don't know, but I think it is past ten."
Pentland, 12,454 feet above the sea; and the neighbouring peaks, composed of dark purple and whitish porphyries, some obscurely stratified with a westerly dip, and others without a trace of stratification, must exceed 13,000 feet in height.
In passing the Pentland Hills, into Mid-Lothian, the chiefs were met by Edwin, who had crossed from the north by the Frith of Forth; and having heard no tidings of the Scottish army in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, he had turned to meet it on the most probably road.
A wit on a San Francisco paper once published at Thanksgiving time "A Thanksgiving proclamation by our stuttering reporter 'Praise God from whom all blessings f-f-low." In my memory he is associated with Haymaker Square. I well remember the famous circus clown of the period, Joe Pentland, very serious and proper when not professionally funny.
This induced the captain to run through the Pentland Firth, after passing through which they were beset by calms. One day a small steamer passed close alongside the "Blazer." "That's an Aberdeen steamer," said the captain; "would you like to be put on board, Gaff?" Gaff said that he would, as it was probable he should reach home sooner by her than if he were to accompany the "Blazer" to London.
This man was arrested and, in spite of Barnum's efforts to save him, imprisoned for many months for advising a negro barber who was shaving him to run away to the Free States or to Canada. To fill up his ranks Barnum now hired Bob White, a negro singer, and Joe Pentland, a clown, ventriloquist, comic singer, juggler, and sleight-of-hand performer, and also bought four horses and two wagons.
You have beaten the two best soldiers in the German Empire, and you have done it like a gentleman. But you are not altogether an Irishman, are you, Mr Castellan?" "No, sir, I am a Spaniard as well. The earliest ancestor that I know commanded the Santiago, wrecked on Achill Island, when the Armada came south from the Pentland Firth. The rest of me is Irish. I need hardly say more.
KINAU. One of the group of remarkable ring-plains extending in a N.W. direction from Pentland. SIMPELIUS. Another grand circumvallation, almost as large as Pentland, but unfortunately much foreshortened. One of its peaks on the E. rises to a height of more than 12,000 feet above the floor, on which there is a small central mountain.
He himself, remorseful, had gone with the Biblereader from the Medical Mission in the Cowgate to the dormer-lighted closet in College Wynd, where Auld Jock had died. Now he described the classic fireplace of white freestone, with its boxed-in bed, where the Pentland shepherd lay like some effigy on a bier, with the wee guardian dog stretched on the flagged hearth below.
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