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852 OUK ADVENTUEE IN THE HIGHLANDS.
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And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
near bye big-git o' wud ; we can tak the gentleman to it , and licht a fire to warm him . "
further The proposal lained was that gladl he y and acceded his companions to ; and then had been the man sent
into the exp wood to fell timberand it being " owre far to gae hame o' nichtswe jist brought , the male for our parritch wie
us They and bi cut ggit two a , bit long housie strai for ght ours branches ells . " from a neighbouring their
larchand lopped the twigs off them with axes . By means a sort , of of hammock coats , handkerchiefs between the , and two ropes . poles , we and managed in it we to p make laced
Charlie . Two of the men then raised , it to their shoulders hut palanquin poor . As we fashion walked , and Harry in sing accounted le file we for set his out disappearance for the wop den _^ :
round which being we reall the mi y lake g anxious ht get for out , to the of discover the wood , if , of possible he exp had loring , , he some said its , mean wandered marg s in by .
Having at last discovered purpose a narrow foot-path , he had followed it for about a milebut findinthat it only seemed to lead him
deeper into the wood , , he turned g , and on his way back met the men " But who did now you accompanied not hear me us shouting . your name ? " I asked .
Arrived " Not till at I the whistled little in hut rep our ly . " friends lost no time in making *
renewed a fire of our dry efforts twigs to . restore We , laid him Charlie to consciousness in front ; of at it last , and to
In our half great an joy hour , he he opened was able his eyes to sit . Oh , and how relate thankful to us I felt , the I up
circumstances which led to his so nearly losing his life . Soon after Harry had set out sail on to his this exp he loring Charlie expedition at , Ashton , he
saidhad proposed a , () once agreed ; middl and , untying e of the the lake boat they when got Ashton in , and as had if rowed acting to under about some the
threw ungovernable him into impulse the water , , suddenl The y rest seized , I saw him and , and have by de main scribed force .
whil Harry e Charlie and the and three 1 remained woodmen , seated went before out to the search firp for wrapped Ashton in ,,
blankets ( sent us by the men ) , like Indians before , a council firewaiting for our clothes to dry . In about three hours
traces Harry , of and his Ashton companions . Our returned clothes , being _without by having this time seen dry any ,,
and Charlie poor _quite recovered , it was arranged that he and Harry the shoul search d go back We to all the went hotel together , white the guided woodmen by the and woodmen I renewed to
the verge . of the forest , and then , Harry and Charlie took , the
road We tra Dunkeld versed the while wood the unt men il darkness I continued closed in , search but n ot a
852 Ouk Adventuee In The Highlands.
852 OUK ADVENTUEE IN THE HIGHLANDS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/64/
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