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350 OUR ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS.
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And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
on was the a littl miniature e coble , lake which loosel , with tied the oars to the inside trunk it , of lay a motionless tree . The
- " boatie " had doubtless , been y placed there for the use of the Duke of Athol ' s _" illies" on the rare occasions when th
came for the purpose g of fishing , * . ey " Here let us rest" cried Harrythrowing- himself into an
attitude , " and lunch , ; the latter littl , e bit of business settled , we can recline in the shade , and like a quartet of Tityruses sing
the praises of our respective Amarylises . " wistfull We seated at the ourselves little boat among . the heather , but Charlie looked
y u How I should like a sail , " he said ; " no doubt there are lots I wouldn of fish 't mind in the doing lake . a littl I ' ve e got poaching some lines . ' in my pocket , and
"Duty first , pleasure afterwards , " said Harry , gravely , as he opened his sandwich case .
Thus reproved , Charlie said no more , but ate his lunch like a our sensible pipes man stretched . Sandwiches ourselves and at full sherry length disposed among of the , we heath lighted er
pulled our , caps over our eyes , and gave ourselves up to indolence . , The sun was hot ; our walk had been fatiguing ; the boughs
above me gradually ceased to wave , the hum of insects around me became inaudibleand I fell asleep .
I dreamt that Charlie , , Ashton , and I were wandering round a , circular chasm , which appeared to be bottomless and filled
, with darkness . The path round the brink was so narrow that only one could walk abreast . Charlie was in frontI was next
to himand Ashton was behind . It seemed to be , Ashton ' s constan , t endeavour to pass me , and mine to prevent his doing
so . We wandered round and round and round the gloomy pit , till , with a sudden spring , Ashton dashed past me , and seeming
to be transformed into a fiend , twined his fingers in Charlie _^ s hair—a splasha bubbling screamand I awoke . I was alone
beneath the pine , -tree , but out in , the middle of the lake was the little boatand in it stood Ashtonwith—oh horror!—the
same look on his , face which I had seen , there when the moon shone down upon it in the laurel thicket . There were the
and glaring Harry - eyes were ., the nowhere drawn-back to be li ps seen , the but grinning there was teeth an . edd Charlie y on
the water , as if some heavy body had , just been submerged . A moment afterCharlie's head appeared above the surfaceand
he made for the , shore . Ashton sprung from the boat , and , a few of his longpowerful strokes brought him to Charlie ' s side .
see Keep him ing grasp himself poor , aflo Charlie at with 's one throat hand with , wh the a t w ther a s my uttering horror ' as to
flashe he did d so upon a yell me which the dreadfu made l truth my blood that he run was cold — . mad , Then . there
350 Our Adventure In The Highlands.
350 OUR ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/62/
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