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 he: ‘Boys, if what's aboot 'im comes as he's laek, we'll shön hae a shange o' wind.’

“‘Da carry is comin frae da nor'-wast,’ says Jockie, ‘an' if it hings up dat it widna be a fairlie if he sood be maughtly troo da swaar o' da dim.’

“‘Du says da carry is comin' frae da nor'-wast,’ says Lowrie. ‘Dat's a' da waar sign, fir, be-me-sang, he's sookin' till 'im. Onyene 'at haes een i' dir head can see dat dis only a loor atween wadders. We'll hae a ungastö afore sun-risin'.’

“‘I döna laek yon önd alang da nort' banks,’ says Jockie, ‘an' dey wir ower monny brynics aboot 'im i' da moarnin' ta be lang guid.’

“Very little mair wis said till we cam' befram Vordadaal, whin Maans said dat we sood hadd better oot an' wast, till we got da Stack i' Slaggie an' da Daa at Stickie, an' dere hae a shot ta da boddim.

“‘I never saw muckle guid dere,’ says Lowrie. ‘If we wir oot da lent o' da Stack at da Suilik an' da Ooverburg at da