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    OUB &DVENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS. 843

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    _"" You Yes , foolish awfully fellow . ' !—of whom ? " takable " Of Cap attention tain Ashton and he to be is sure . handsome I saw he paid and you I wasn unmis 't to - very ;

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    peculiar been was violentl sound y broug near me ht , together , a sound — as a sound if two such hard as substances strong , sharp had

    teethlike Captain Ashton's , would make in being gnashed . was As situ , a boy ated , I near used my to p father lay in ' s a house certain . zoolog Among ical the garden call animals , it which in

    that the Chinese menagerie it would pig . " tear was This the a peccary creature hand of , or the was , as keeper so we savage boys who used fed and to it treacherous daily if , his " a ,

    its of eye its victim was intention turned Just away was such -to for a gnash a sound mom its ent as teeth ; th the at once onl made , y and in by dication then the peccary it it seized gave I

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    foliage , the I saw laurel y within , branches a few . A feet . moonbeam of _^ me a shone figure throug crouching h the

    leaves among full on the facewhich with difficulty I recognised as grinning metamorp that of Captain hosed littering Ashton ! the teeth li . , ps How were the ch draw anged which n ti it g was htl were y ! back how fixed frig from upon htfull , the the y

    unconscious maniacal , g fire lovers and , the seemed strai ; literal ght eyes heavy ly , to , blaze black with hair an stragg inwar led d

    over e : the in the swarth blue , y moonli brow , on ht which he looked , every demoniac vein stood . out like a g

    rop b Charlie the side and of the Annie river , after turned standing and moved a few slowl moments y up the longer walk .

    y , lawn cautiousl As the and footsteps y parting I could died the hear branches away the , leaves the before cro rustl uching him e as , fi _emerged keep gure ing near on closel me the y ,

    under , the shadows of the laurelshe crept towards , the house . concealm Scarcel ent y knowing on the oth what er sid to e think of , the or thicket do , I , , and too , hastened quitted my up

    the walk . Charlie and Annie were waltzing together as I

    Oub &Dventube In The Highlands. 843

    OUB _& DVENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS . 843

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/55/