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Huntingtower

CHAPTER X
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But when he fund out there was no magic lantern or swaree at Christmas he gie'd it the chuck.

They learned him a heap o' queer songs.

That's one." "What does the last word mean ?" "I don't ken.

Jaikie thought it was some kind of a draigon." "It's a daft-like thing anyway....

When's high water ?" Dougal answered that to the best of his knowledge it fell between four and five in the afternoon.
"Then that's when we may expect the foreign gentry if they think to bring their boat in to the Garplefoot....


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