I should not have liked to be there alone even in the broad daylight.

But with Turkey I would have gone at any hour, even without the impulse which now urged me to follow him at my best speed.

There was some marshy ground between us and the knoll, but we floundered through it; and then Turkey, who was some distance ahead of me, dropped into a walk, and began to reconnoitre the knoll with some caution.

I soon got up with him.
"He's there, Ranald!" he said.
"Who?
Davie ?" "I don't know about Davie; but Willie's there." "How do you know ?" "I heard his bagpipes grunt.

Perhaps Davie sat down upon them." "Oh, run, Turkey!" I said, eagerly.
"No hurry," he returned.