es off; andlucky it was for them that there was no one tohear them but the old keeper, who lived all aloneupon the Ness, in a turf hut thatched with heatherand fringed round with great stones slung across the VI [ A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 259 root by bent-ropes, lest the winter gales should… … Jfv,, H/. _>-UU as good an old Scotchman as ever knit stockings on awinters night: only, when all the birds were going,he toddled out, and took oil his cap to them, andwished them a merry journey and a safe return; andthen gathered up all the feathers which they had left. 260 THE WATER-BABIES…
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