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346 OUR ADVENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS.
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And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
is a way ! We plodded sturdily on , and after much sinking- in h ogs and general comings to grief , we at last reached the
and summit admired ; Charlie the , Harry magnificent , and I view threw before ourselves us , on but the Ashton ground ' _s demeanour had become suddenly and strangely excitedhe
wandered restlessly about , sometimes jumping from the groun , d and laughing without any apparent cause , then winding his
arm round the trunk of a stunted tree which grew on the brink of the cliff , he bent over the precipice , Oh , to skim through
the air like those birds beneath me , " lie cried excitedly , " how soft a bed those feathery trees far below would make ! Come , Heathcoteand see ! " _'
and Charlie whisp , ered half rose " Don , but 't b go y a Charlie sudden impulse for Grod ' s I sake clutched don ' t go arm _^
He looked at , me in surprise , , and , then as if following the bent of his own inclination , rather than heeding my appeal ,
me resumed Ashton his recumbent I ' m too comfortable position , and wjier said e I with am . ' a yawn , Excuse
" , Come , I , tell you , " Ashton cried , almost fiercely . " What are you afraid of ?"
_" Nothing / ' was Charlie ' s imperturbable reply , " but I'm too lazy to move . "
Ashton did not say a word , but with a strange-sounding laugh , climbed up the tree to which he had been clinging and swung
himself about among the branches ; Charlie and Harry looking upon the extraordinary proceeding as merely a display of his
wonderful athletic power , applauded loudly . But what was our horrorwhen having scrambled like a monkey to the end of a
branch , which overhung the precipice , he drop _| _3 ed into the air , _susxDended bonlone hand . The branch creaked and bent
with his wei y ght , and y beneath him were many hundred feet of empty space . " Come back ! oh , come back ! " cried Charlie ,
all " the know branch and may admir break e your , hear skill how as it a creak gymnast s I , Oh but , Ashton don't , risk we your life to display it . "
We had sprung to our feet in our excitement ; and when at last Aslitonflushed and pantingrejoined uswe turned and
without saying , a word hastened down , the hill , , feeling relieved as every step increased the distance between us and the cliff .
Ashton _' s excitement calmed as suddenly as it had risen ; and cheerful as we made and our agreeable way back companion to the hotel than , he no could more we sociable have ,
wished . , At dinner too , among the crowd of faces which manners surrounded were the so table polished d * hote , no _, none conversation was so handsome so brilliant as . his , no
the After eveni dinner ng was so smoked glorious and that p a layed walk bowl was s soon on the proposed lawn , and but
346 Our Adventube In The Highlands.
346 OUR ADVENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/58/
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