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OUR ADVENTUBE ifr THE HIGHLANDS. 853
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And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
porrid sign of Ashton and then did we lay see ing . ourselves Returning on * to the the ground hut , we in supped front of
our the fire task ge , , wer but e with soon no fas better t asleep result . At . sunrise On returning we were again again to the at
wished hut we t , found o Harry waiting himbu us t he there had ; Charlie dissuaded , he him said , from had
doing so . accompany After u porridge , " we again set out , and all that live t -long of it but we still wandered not a t trace hroug of h the Ashton wood . , Wh traversing ether he every had
pur par posely ; concealed himself from us or not , I cannot tell , but o w cessful u h en impa t , wili and tience ght with deepened , for heavy the we anxious sun again to ris hear returned hours e , ts . Scarcel se to t at the last y hut again wai , ting unsuc dark next ' , in
how ob morning jec chan t ly . ing ged A under fter ! What a a search tree a . wreck of It some was ! His Ashton cloth , we fas es t were asleep saw almost , and a oh all !
gon covered e , and with wha -scratches t of them and rem mud ained his were cheeks in shreds sunken ; his from face want was
kno of food tted ; together his hair with , once moss so rich and ; dead glossy leaves , . Ashton rough ! , and the
pri F earing of our that regimen he t mi , come ght be to t v iolen ! t , we had broug his ht with it
us some ropes ; with these the woodmen secured armsw wen e led t to him my heart to He see did them not do it—an to d recognize as soon as Harry he awoke and
mebut he away went . with us quite appear quietly . We kept him at the hut , till one of the woodmen went to Dunkeld and broug the ht wood out
w a here carria it ge ( the to convey riage ) us awai back ted . us At , we the bade outskirts good of -bye to our , kind friends the woodmenBravehonest-hearted men ! we
may The ne quiescence ver see you of again , but Ashton . we shal did , l at not least last never long fo . rget In you the . *"
the carri ag t e el he he was became restless poor so , unmanageable even violent ; that and when we considered we reached it
expedient lum at , to Perth telegrap . With h at the once first to train the managers a medical of man the and lunatic
twoattendants asy arrivedand under their care he was conveyed back to I Perth have and said safel we y had , lod no ged knowled in the asylum of Ashton . ' s relativeshut
ge , him fortunatel him we we wrote _afterwards y we at knew once learned the , de name tailing some and what particular address had been s of of Ashton his done lawyer , and ' s former . from To ,
history settled . in His India father , and was marrie a rich d a Eng beautiful lish merchant Hindoo , who woman had .
watches N . B . we As could soon buy as . we got back to Perth , we sent them the biggest
VOL . XIII * . _2 b
Our Adventube Ifr The Highlands. 853
OUR ADVENTUBE _ifr THE HIGHLANDS . 853
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/65/
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