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OUR ADVENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS. 339
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And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
t len care gth of rap averring for all , the that grouse " were alive we . " Hariy he middle even went f a rnoor the
with hands and th one , and shot air w around e w earnes e wou us tl l d dark req ues t w iv t el th j " birds us refuse t t , . were favour Call guns it the sport pu compan t ! " he y
added as a peroration , ; " p why , it ' s y downright cruelty , it ' s inhumanitand sure am I ( this was said with much
of manner y ; ) very very sure am I tha , t neither of my respected friends pomp would lend themselves to such a thing . Would you ? " Here
p ipes looked from at C u r arlie lips , and me , gravel and we y sha strai king ghtwa our y removed heads , said our NEVER"
" W . We could not , obtain leave till the return of several of our absent subs ; so while awaiting their advent we did our best to
d emp int of y our liard leisure playin pro g fit ably . After tuition parade , to pas we s managed the time , t b y
lunch novels ; , p th ipes at , meal and " p baccy artak , " of , we journ filled t ing to the poc summi kets w t it h f
and Kinnoul fell asleep Hill , s to tre the tched imminent ourselve danger s on he of rolling grass , - smoked over the , read cliff . ,
On K ho innou t day l H we , foun too d much the ascen for t of s o ven we s d mild ed an ourselves eminence to as ragg
the g the iving contemp _jSTo one rth eye Inch lation to , an of the d a saun cows certain tered and law the alon n , which scenery g the sloped , bank and of the down the other to river the to ,
frequentl wa amon ter g 's the ed y ge to flower be on seen the beds a opposite sli or ght seated muslin side on , -clad an a d garden on figure which , seat flittin , there demur g about w el y
reading . Thank _g-oodness the Roses at least had not gone touring lances * , at so Laurel we did Grove not . confine It was ours our elves goal ; to and mere the squinted magnet
which g attracted us with such irresistible potency was that more same frequentl slight muslin y called -clad , " fi The gure fair —Annie maid Rose of Perth —or , . as " she We was all
was admired There suspected was her , another and of sentim we all of ents our flirted fellows lying with deeper her too , but who than Charlie was mere constantl flirtation Heathcote . to
be found at Laurel Grove ; it was Captain , , Ash ton , a man w y ell worthy of description . He was the handsomest man in our
the A reg pollo iment ; icion his , six hair - of feet his and -two having comp in hei lexion " g a ht touch , were and of with so the dark the tar as fi brush gure to * warrant of " but th _, e
his features susp were beautifully regular ; his teeth were singularl , y thinking strong , white of ,, an and animal even— of I never could and look he had at them the greatest without
muscular power combined with prey supp , leness I ever saw ; in short , as an athletehe was unequalled . We considex'ed him an
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Our Adventube In The Highlands. 339
OUR ADVENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS . 339
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/51/
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