Our Home in the Silver West: A Story of Struggle and Adventure

And now, come to think of it, there is something to add to all this.

Can you guess my secret, reader mine?

Irene, my darling Irene and I, Murdoch M'Crimman, are also to be —

But, there, you have guessed my secret, as I guessed auntie's.

And just let me ask this: Could any better plan have been devised of burying the hatchet betwixt two rival Highland clans, and putting an end for ever to a blood feud?

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Triton.

2

Smothered.

3

Birch-trees.

4

Cland, a kind of hawk.

5

'Shortly shank a curn' – speedily knit a few pairs.

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Since then the Indians have been swept far to the south, and so hemmed in that the provinces north of their territory are as safe from invasion as England itself. – G. S.

7

'Ca' Canny' = Drive slowly.

8

Pampero, a storm wind that blows from the south.

9

For-fochten = worn out. The term usually applies to barn-yard roosters, who have been settling a quarrel, and pause to pant, with their heads towards the ground.

10

Swans usually commence laying some time before either ducks or geese; but much depends upon the season.

11

Orra = leisure, idle. An orra-man is one who does all kinds of odd jobs about a farm.

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Nowt = cattle.

13

Peer = poor.

14

Toldo = a tent.

15

The Rhea Americana.