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Excerpt from Adventures in Thule: Three Stories for Boys
I will go with you, Colin; we will try it! Said the' other, eagerly. My father will not be back from Stornoway till the Friday night. But about the powder, Colin; I have no pow der, and you cannot fire the horse-pistol without powder.
However, there were a great many things to be arranged besides getting powder before this exploit could be ventured upon; and they set about completing these details according to their different temperaments; the younger lad, who was a great reader of books, filled with an eager delight at the ro mance of the enterprise, the elder animated chiefly by a sober determination that he would do what he could to prevent any more of his father's sheep being stolen. Indeed, it was not until late ln the afternoon that Colin Mccalmont found time to make his way up glen-estera, to Sir Evan Roy's shooting bog. There, that he might beg some gunpowder of Dugald Mc Lean, the game-keeper.
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