This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...agen. For-wards!" It was hardly three minutes since Marjory had beep startled by the horse's head suddenly looming over her shoulder; it was not twenty minutes before they had gained the bottom, but during that twenty minutes Marjory and her guide had conversed a good deal together. "Whatever," he began, "Miss, took ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...agen. For-wards!" It was hardly three minutes since Marjory had beep startled by the horse's head suddenly looming over her shoulder; it was not twenty minutes before they had gained the bottom, but during that twenty minutes Marjory and her guide had conversed a good deal together. "Whatever," he began, "Miss, took you up them nasty, poverty mountains?" "We had been reading about one of them, Minchmoor, in a book, and it seemed so interesting; and we wanted to see the view. But what took you there 1" "Bill, Miss; him and his short cuts. No, thank 'ee, not any more o' them for Pyramus." "Who's Pyramus?" asked Marjory. "Yours to command, Miss--Mr. Pyramus Stanley, Esq., horse-dealer, violinist, and tip-top gentleman traveller." "But not really? that isn't really your name?" "Well, it ought to, Miss, being it's what I was christened. I never can make out what people find so comical in it. I'm sure it's as good any day as Jock or Sandy or Bob or Hector, more like dogs' names nor Christians'. But there was a chap t'other day in Edinburgh Grassmarket, one of your would-be, prodigal monkeys, and he hears my name, and says he, ' Where's Fuzby 1' 'Meaning who 1' I asks him; and 'Meaning Mrs. Pyramus, ' says he, ' Pyramus and Fuzby are bound to be in partnership.' 'I'll trouble you, my man, ' I says, 'to leave Mrs. Pyramus alone;' and I lands him one aside the head just to lar n him civility. It was likely I was going to tell the likes o' him my missus's name. But for real comical names these Scotch towns beat everything. You wouldn't guess now where I'm come from to-day." "Where?" Marjory inquired. "Bigger. What do you think o' that for a name?" "Biggar, oh ye...
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