Or ye might have been massacred by ane o the
Haripol sumphs wi tenbullets in the big bag.
It would be goodfor Johnson Claybodys soul to see
you!
We need more turf, and she disappeared from
sightbeyond a knoll. He had known it before, but now came the flash of supreme
conviction.
Nae poch-a-bhuie for me the day, he grinned. Once
the watershedhad been crossed Watties heart lightened.
He laboured to follow with the same
precision.
We may as well be properly wet, she said. Her
bright hair,dabbled with raindrops, was battened down under an ancient felt hat. But
I was too nervousto sit with the others, so I found a corner at the back below the
gallery. But theres a fifth who does sentry-go, and I dont fancy the look of himso
much.
He loved freedom better than his happy home. I
looked for it afore night, but no that early in the day. Is it fair to kill the best
beast in the forest?
Theyll either be triumphant or savage, and in
either case theyll talk.
The two lay in the current for what seemed to
Lamancha at leasthalf an hour. When she returned she was excessively muddy as
tohands and garments. It was an unfamiliar noise among the manyfamiliar ones which
at the moment filled the corrie.
Were no withinsix hundred yards o yon beasts, he
said.
After that it seemed advisable to Wattie to keep to
the water,which was flowing in a deep-cut bed. The hind turned her head,and trotted
off up-wind. Charles must be somewhere behind protectin the rear. Ive just had a
letter from Dickinson on which Id like your views. Yeve beaten a hundred navvies and
Macnicol and a, and yeve gottenthe best heid in the country-side. Where dyou suppose
the leery old birdhas got to? We need more turf, and she disappeared from
sightbeyond a knoll.
He was impatient for Wattie to finish, for the air
seemed tohim lightening.
The navvies followed with difficulty, for they had
no gift of speed ona steep hill-face.
Did you pull that great bruteall the way
yourself?
If anything hashappened there, she said, you will
hear about from the gillies. He tried that steep bit and couldna manage it.