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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: That is something like the English of it: we had heard the Fhir a Bhata in other days. The long, heavy pull is nearly over. Here are the low-lying reefs of rock outside Inch Kenneth; not a whisper is permissible as we Creep into the nearest bay. And then the men and the boat are left there; and the Youth?perhaps dimly conscious that his uncle means the seal-skin for Mary Avon?grasps his rifle and steals away over the undulating shelves of rock; while his two companions, with more leisure but with not less circumspection, follow to observe his operations. Fortunately there is no screaming sea-pyot or whistling curlew to give warning; stealthily, almost bent in two, occasionally crawling on all fours, he makes his way along the crannies in the reef, until, as we see, he must be nearly approaching the chancel on his left. There he pauses to take breath. He creeps behind a rock; and cautiously looks over. He continues his progress. This is terrible woark, says the Laird, in a stage-whisper, as he, too ?with a much heavier bulk to carry?worms along. From time to time he has to stay to apply his handkerchief to his forehead; it is hot work on this still, breathless day. And at last we, too, get down to the edge of a channel?some hundred yards lower than Howard Smith's post?and from behind a rock we have a pretty clear view of the scene of operations. Apparently there is no sign of any living thing?except that a big fish leapt into the air, some dozen yards off. Thereafter a dead silence. After waiting about a quarter of an hour or so, the Laird seemed to become violently excited, though he would neither budge nor speak. And there, between two islands right opposite young Smith, appeared two shining black heads on the still water; and they were evidently coming down th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217074810 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217074812 |
| Weight | 2.11 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.46 In |
| List Price | $43.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 660 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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