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THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE ut now our time of truce was come to an end. Those on deck had waited for my coming till they grew impatient; and scarce had Alan spoken, when the captain showed face in…
THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER lan and I sat down to breakfast about six of the clock. The floor was covered with broken glass and in a horrid mess of blood, which took away my hunger. In all other ways…
I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX” efore we had done cleaning out the round-house, a breeze sprang up from a little to the east of north. This blew off the rain and brought out the sun. And here I must explai…
THE LOSS OF THE BRIG t was already late at night, and as dark as it ever would be at that season of the year (and that is to say, it was still pretty bright), when Hoseason clapped his head into the…
THE ISLET ith my stepping ashore I began the most unhappy part of my adventures. It was half-past twelve in the morning, and though the wind was broken by the land, it was a cold night. I dared not …
THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL he Ross of Mull, which I had now got upon, was rugged and trackless, like the isle I had just left; being all bog, and brier, and big stone. …
THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN here is a regular ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline on the mainland. Both shores of the Sound are in the country of the strong clan of the Macleans, an…
THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX he next day Mr. Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his own and was to cross the Linnhe Loch that afternoon into Appin, fishing. Him he prevailed on to take me, …
I TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE lan was the first to come round. He rose, went to the border of the wood, peered out a little, and then returned and sat down. “Well,” said he, “yon was a…
THE HOUSE OF FEAR ight fell as we were walking, and the clouds, which had broken up in the afternoon, settled in and thickened, so that it fell, for the season of the year, extremely dark. The way w…
