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 "This is a miserable place for ye a'," said Hobbie, looking around him; "I can sleep weel aneugh mysel out-bye beside the naig, as I hae done mony a lang night on the hills, but how ye are to put yoursels up, I canna see! And, what's waur, I canna mend it; and, what's waur than a', the morrow may come, and the day after that, without your being a bit better off."

"It was a cowardly, cruel thing," said one of the sisters, looking round, "to harry a poor family to the bare wa's this gate."

"And leave us neither stirk nor stot," said the youngest brother, who now entered, "nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass and corn."

"If they had ony quarrel wi' us," said Harry, the second brother, "were we na ready to have fought it out? And that we should have been a' frae hame, too,—ane and a' upon the hill—Odd, an' we had