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14 - Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen. The islet. With my stepping ashore, I began
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  Speaker 1: the most unhappy part of my adventures. It was half
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  Speaker 1: past twelve in the morning, and though the wind was
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  Speaker 1: broken by the land, it was a cold night. I
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  Speaker 1: dared not sit down, for I thought I should have frozen,
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  Speaker 1: But I took off my shoes and walked to and
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  Speaker 1: fro upon the sand, barefoot and beating my breast with
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  Speaker 1: infinite weariness. There was no sound of man or cattle,
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  Speaker 1: not a cock crew, though it was about the hour
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  Speaker 1: of their first waking. Only the surf broke outside in
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  Speaker 1: the distance, which put me in mind of my perils
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  Speaker 1: and those of my friend. To walked by the sea
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  Speaker 1: at that hour of the morning, and in a place
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  Speaker 1: so desert like and lonesome, struck me with a kind
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  Speaker 1: of fear. As soon as the day began to break,
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  Speaker 1: I put on my shoes and climbed a hill, the
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  Speaker 1: ruggedest scramble I ever undertook, falling the whole way between
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  Speaker 1: big block of granite, or leaping from one to another.
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  Speaker 1: When I got to the top, the dawn was come.
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  Speaker 1: There was no sign of the brig which must have
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  Speaker 1: lifted from the reef, and sunk. The boat, too, was
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to be seen. There was never a sail upon
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  Speaker 1: the ocean, and in what I could see of the
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  Speaker 1: land was neither house nor man. I was afraid to
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  Speaker 1: think what had befallen my shipmates, and afraid to look
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  Speaker 1: longer at so empty a scene. What with my wet
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  Speaker 1: clothes and weariness, and my belly that now began to
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  Speaker 1: ache with hunger, I had enough to trouble me without that.
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  Speaker 1: So I set off eastward along the south coast, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to find a house where I might warm myself and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps get news of those I had lost. And at
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  Speaker 1: the worst I considered the sun would soon rise and
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  Speaker 1: dry my clothes. After a little my way was stopped
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  Speaker 1: by a creek or inlet of the sea, which seemed
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  Speaker 1: to run pretty deep into the land, and as I
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  Speaker 1: had no means to get across, I must needs change
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  Speaker 1: my direction to go around the end of it. It
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  Speaker 1: was still the roughest kind of walking. Indeed, the whole
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  Speaker 1: not only of Herid, but of the neighboring part of Mull,
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  Speaker 1: which they called the Ross, is nothing but a jumble
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  Speaker 1: of granite rocks with heatherin among. At first, the creek
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  Speaker 1: kept narrowing as I had looked to see, but presently,
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  Speaker 1: to my surprise, it began to widen out again. At
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  Speaker 1: this I scratched my head, but had still no notion
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  Speaker 1: of the truth, until at last I came to a
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  Speaker 1: rising ground, and it pursed upon me all in a
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  Speaker 1: moment that I was cast upon a little barren isle
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  Speaker 1: and cut off on every side by the salt seas. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: as instead of the sun rising to dry me, it
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  Speaker 1: came on to rain with a thick mist, so that
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  Speaker 1: my case was lamentable. I stood in the rain and
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  Speaker 1: shivered and wondered what to do, till it occurred to
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  Speaker 1: me that perhaps the creek was fordable Back. I went
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  Speaker 1: to the narrowest point and waded in, but not three
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  Speaker 1: yards from shore. I plumped in head over ears, and
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  Speaker 1: if ever I was heard of more, it was rather
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  Speaker 1: by God's grace than my own prudence. I was no wetter,
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  Speaker 1: for that could hardly be. But I was all the
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  Speaker 1: colder for this mishap, and having lost another hope, was
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  Speaker 1: the more unhappy. And now all at once the yard
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  Speaker 1: came in my head. What had carried me through the
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  Speaker 1: roost would surely serve me to cross this little quiet
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  Speaker 1: creek in safety. With that, I set off, undaunted across
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  Speaker 1: the top of the aisle to fetch and carry it back.
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  Speaker 1: It was a weary tramp in all ways, and if
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  Speaker 1: hope had not buoyed me up, I must have cast
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  Speaker 1: myself down and given up, Whether with the sea salt
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  Speaker 1: or because I was growing fevered. I was distressed with thirst,
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  Speaker 1: had to stop as I went and drink the peaty
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  Speaker 1: water out of the hags. I came to the bay
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  Speaker 1: at last, more dead than alive, and at the first
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  Speaker 1: glance I thought the yard was something farther out than
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  Speaker 1: when I left it in I went for the third
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  Speaker 1: time into the sea. The sand was smooth and firm,
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  Speaker 1: and shelved gradually down, so that I could wade out
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  Speaker 1: till the water was almost to my neck, and little
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  Speaker 1: waves splashed into my face. But at that depth my
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  Speaker 1: feet began to leave me, and I durst venture in
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  Speaker 1: no farther As for the yard, I saw it bobbing
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  Speaker 1: very quietly some twenty feet beyond. I had borne up
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  Speaker 1: well until this last disappointment, But at that I came
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  Speaker 1: ashore and flung myself down upon the sands and wept
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  Speaker 1: the time I spent upon the island is still so
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  Speaker 1: horrible a thought to me that I must pass it
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  Speaker 1: lightly over. In all the books I have read of
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  Speaker 1: people cast away, they had either their pockets full of tools,
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  Speaker 1: or a chest of things, which would be thrown upon
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  Speaker 1: the beach along with them, as if on purpose. My
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  Speaker 1: case was very different. I had nothing in my pockets
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  Speaker 1: but money and Allan's silver button, and being inland bred,
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  Speaker 1: I was as much short of knowledge as of means.
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  Speaker 1: I knew indeed that shell fish were counted good to eat,
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  Speaker 1: and among the rocks of the isle I found a
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  Speaker 1: great plenty of limpets, which at first I could hardly
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  Speaker 1: strike from their places, not knowing quickness to be needful.
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  Speaker 1: There were, besides, some of the little shells that we
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  Speaker 1: call BUCkies. I think periwinkle is the English name of
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  Speaker 1: these too. I made my whole diet, devouring them cold
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  Speaker 1: and raw as I found them, And so hungry was
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  Speaker 1: I that at first they seemed to me delicious. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they were out of season, perhaps there was something wrong
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  Speaker 1: in the sea about my island. But at least I
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  Speaker 1: had no sooner eaten my first meal than I was
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  Speaker 1: seized with giddiness and wretching, and lay for a long
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  Speaker 1: time no better than dead. A second trial of the
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  Speaker 1: same food, indeed I had no other, did better with
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  Speaker 1: me and revived my strength. But as long as I
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  Speaker 1: was on the island, I ever knew what to expect
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  Speaker 1: when I had eaten. Sometimes all was well, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I was thrown into a miserable sickness. Nor could I
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  Speaker 1: ever distinguish what particular fish it was that hurt me.
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  Speaker 1: All day its streamed rain, the island ran like a sop.
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  Speaker 1: There was no dry spot to be found. And when
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  Speaker 1: I lay down that night between two boulders that made
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  Speaker 1: a kind of roof, my feet were in a bog.
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  Speaker 1: The second day I crossed the island to all sides.
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  Speaker 1: There was no one part of it better than another.
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  Speaker 1: It was all desolate and rocky, nothing living on it
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  Speaker 1: but game birds, which I lacked the means to kill,
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  Speaker 1: and gulls which haunted the outlying rocks, and a prodigious number.
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  Speaker 1: But the creek or strait that cut off the isle
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  Speaker 1: from the mainland of the Ross opened out on the
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  Speaker 1: north into a bay, and the bay again opened into
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  Speaker 1: the Sound of Iona, and it was the neighborhood of
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  Speaker 1: this place that I chose to be my home. Though
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  Speaker 1: if I had thought upon the very name of home
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  Speaker 1: in such a spot, I must have burst out weeping.
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  Speaker 1: I had good reasons for my choice. There was in
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  Speaker 1: this part of the isle a little hut of a house,
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  Speaker 1: like a pig's hut, where fishers used to sleep when
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  Speaker 1: they came there upon their business. But the turf roof
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  Speaker 1: of it had fallen entirely in, so that the hut
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  Speaker 1: was of no use to me, and gave me less
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  Speaker 1: shelter than my rocks. What was more important, the shell
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  Speaker 1: fish on which I lived grew there in great plenty.
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  Speaker 1: When the tide was out, I could gather a peck
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  Speaker 1: at a time, and this was doubtless a convenience. But
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  Speaker 1: the other reason went deeper. I had become in no
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  Speaker 1: way use to the horrid solitude of the isle, but
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  Speaker 1: still looked round me on all sides, like a man
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  Speaker 1: that was hunted between fear and hope that I might
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  Speaker 1: see some human creature coming. Now from a little up
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  Speaker 1: the hill side over the bay, I could catch a
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  Speaker 1: sight of the great ancient church, and the roofs of
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  Speaker 1: the people's houses in Iona and on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: over the low country of the Ross, I saw smoke
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  Speaker 1: go up morning and evening, as if from a homestead
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  Speaker 1: in the hollow of the land. I used to watch
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  Speaker 1: this smoke when I was wet and cold and had
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  Speaker 1: my head half turned with loneliness, and I think of
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  Speaker 1: the fireside and the company till my heart burned. It
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  Speaker 1: was the same with the roofs of Iona. Altogether, this
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  Speaker 1: sight I had of men's homes and comfortable lives. Although
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  Speaker 1: it put a point on my own sufferings, Yet it
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  Speaker 1: kept hope alive, help me to eat my raw shell fish,
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  Speaker 1: which had soon grown to be a disgust, and saved
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  Speaker 1: me from the sense of horror I had whenever I
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  Speaker 1: was quite alone, with dead rocks and fowls, and the
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  Speaker 1: rain and the cold sea. I say it kept hope alive,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed it seemed impossible that I should be left
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  Speaker 1: to die on the shores of my own country and
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  Speaker 1: within view of a church tower and the smoke of
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  Speaker 1: men's houses. But the second day passed, and though as
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  Speaker 1: long as the light lasted, I kept the bright lookout
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  Speaker 1: for boats on the sound or men passing on the ross.
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  Speaker 1: No help came near. Me. It still rained, and I
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  Speaker 1: turned into sleep, as wet as ever, and with a
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  Speaker 1: cruel sore throat, but a little comforted, perhaps by having
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  Speaker 1: said good night to my next neighbors, the people of Iona.
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  Speaker 1: Charles the second declared a man could stay outdoors more
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  Speaker 1: days than the year in the climate of England than
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  Speaker 1: in any other. This was very like a king with
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  Speaker 1: a palace at his back and changes of dry clothes.
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  Speaker 1: But he must have had better luck on his flight
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  Speaker 1: from Worcester than I had in that miserable isle. It
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  Speaker 1: was the height of the summer, yet it rained for
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty four hours, and did not clear until
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon of the third day. This was the day
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  Speaker 1: of incidents. In the morning I saw a red deer,
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  Speaker 1: a buck with a fine spread of antlers, standing in
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  Speaker 1: the rain on the top of the eye. But he
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  Speaker 1: had scarce seen me rise from my rock before he
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  Speaker 1: trotted off upon the other side. I supposed he must
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  Speaker 1: have swum the strait, though what should bring any creature
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  Speaker 1: to arid was more than I could fancy. A little after,
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  Speaker 1: as I was jumping about after my limpets, I was
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  Speaker 1: startled by a guinea piece which fell upon a rock
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  Speaker 1: in front of me and glanced off into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: When the sailors gave me my money again, they kept
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  Speaker 1: back not only about a third of the whole sum,
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  Speaker 1: but my father's leather purse, so that from that day
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  Speaker 1: out I carried my gold loose in a pocket with
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  Speaker 1: a button. I now saw there must be a hole,
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  Speaker 1: and clapped my hand to the place in a great hurry.
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  Speaker 1: But this was to lock the stable door. After the
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  Speaker 1: steed was stolen. I had left the shore at Queen's
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  Speaker 1: Ferry with near on fifty pounds. Now I found no
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  Speaker 1: more than two guinea pieces and a silver shilling. It
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  Speaker 1: is true I picked up a third guinea a little after,
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  Speaker 1: where it lay shining on a piece of turf. That
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  Speaker 1: made a fortune of three pounds and four shillings English
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  Speaker 1: money for a lad the rightful air of an state.
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  Speaker 1: Now starving on an aisle at the extreme end of
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  Speaker 1: the wild highlands. The state of my affairs dashed me
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  Speaker 1: still further, And indeed my plight on that third morning
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  Speaker 1: was truly pitiful. My clothes were beginning to rot. My
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  Speaker 1: stockings in particular were quite worn through, so that my
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  Speaker 1: shanks went naked. My hands had grown quite soft with
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  Speaker 1: a continual soaking. My throat was very sore, My strength
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  Speaker 1: had much abated, and my heart so turned against the
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  Speaker 1: harrid stuff I was condemned to eat that the very
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  Speaker 1: sight of it came near to sicken me. And yet
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  Speaker 1: the worst was not yet come. There was a pretty
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  Speaker 1: high rock on the northwest of Herid, which, because it
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  Speaker 1: had a flat top and overlooked the sound, I was
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  Speaker 1: much in the habit of frequenting, Not that ever I
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  Speaker 1: stayed in one place save when a my misery giving
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  Speaker 1: me no rest. Indeed, I wore myself down with continual
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  Speaker 1: and aimless goings and comings in the rain. As soon, however,
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  Speaker 1: as the sun came out, I lay down on the
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  Speaker 1: top of that rock to dry myself. The comfort of
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  Speaker 1: the sunshine is a thing I cannot tell. It set
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  Speaker 1: me thinking hopefully of my deliverance, of which I had
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  Speaker 1: begun to despair, and I scanned the sea and the
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  Speaker 1: ross with a fresh interest. On the south of my rock,
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  Speaker 1: a part of the island hutted out and hid the
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  Speaker 1: open ocean, so that a boat could thus come quite
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  Speaker 1: near me upon that side, and I benun the wiser well.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, a cobble with a brown sail
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  Speaker 1: and a pair of fissures aboard of it, came flying
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  Speaker 1: round that corner of the aisle, bound for Iona. I
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  Speaker 1: shouted out, and then fell on my knees on the
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  Speaker 1: rock and reached up my hands and prayed to them.
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  Speaker 1: They were near enough to hear. I could even see
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  Speaker 1: the color of their hair, and there was no doubt
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  Speaker 1: but they observed me, for they cried out in the
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  Speaker 1: gallic tongue and laughed. But the boat never turned aside,
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  Speaker 1: and flew on right before my eyes. For Iona. I
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  Speaker 1: could not believe such wickedness, and ran along the shore
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  Speaker 1: from rock to rock, crying on them piteously. Even after
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  Speaker 1: they were out of reach of my voice, I still
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  Speaker 1: cried and waved to them, And when they were quite gone,
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  Speaker 1: I thought my heart would have burst. All the time
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  Speaker 1: of my troubles, I wept only twice, once when I
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  Speaker 1: could not reach the yard, and now second time when
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  Speaker 1: these fissures turned a deaf ear to my cries. But
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  Speaker 1: this time I wept and roared like a wicked child,
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  Speaker 1: tearing up the turf with my nails and grinding my
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  Speaker 1: face in the earth. If a wish would kill men,
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  Speaker 1: those two fishers would never have seen mourning, and I
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  Speaker 1: should likely have died upon my island. When I was
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  Speaker 1: a little over my anger, I must eat again, but
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  Speaker 1: with such loathing of the mess as I could now
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  Speaker 1: scarce control. Sure enough I should have done as well
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  Speaker 1: to fast, for my fishes poisoned me again. I had
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  Speaker 1: all my first pains. My throat was so sore I
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  Speaker 1: could scarce swallow. I had a fit of strong shuddering,
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  Speaker 1: which clucked my teeth together. And there came on me
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  Speaker 1: that dreadful sense of illness, which we have no name for,
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  Speaker 1: either in Scotch or English. I thought I should have
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  Speaker 1: died and made my peace with God, forgiving all men,
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  Speaker 1: even my uncle and the fishers. And as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I had thus made up my mind to the worst
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  Speaker 1: clearness came upon me. I observed the night was falling dry.
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  Speaker 1: My clothes were dried a good deal. Truly, I was
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  Speaker 1: in a better case than ever before since I had
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  Speaker 1: landed on the isle, and so I got to sleep
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  Speaker 1: at last with the thought of gratitude. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: which was the fourth of this horrible life of mine,
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  Speaker 1: I found my body strength run very low, but the
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  Speaker 1: sun shone the air was sweet, and what I managed
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  Speaker 1: to eat of the shellfish agreed well with me and
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  Speaker 1: revived my courage. I was scarce back on my rock,
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  Speaker 1: where I went always the first thing after I had
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  Speaker 1: eaten before I observed a boat coming down the sound,
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  Speaker 1: and with her head, as I thought, in my direction.
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  Speaker 1: I began at once to hope and fear exceedingly, for
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  Speaker 1: I thought these men might have thought better of their
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  Speaker 1: cruelty in be coming back to my assistance. But another
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  Speaker 1: disappointment such as yesterday's, was more than I could bear.
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  Speaker 1: I turned my back accordingly upon the sea and did
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  Speaker 1: not look again till I had counted many hundreds. The
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  Speaker 1: boat was still heading for the island. The next time,
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  Speaker 1: I counted the full thousand as slowly as I could,
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  Speaker 1: my heart beating so as to hurt me. And then
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  Speaker 1: it was out of all question. She was coming straight
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  Speaker 1: to errand I could no longer hold myself, but ran
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  Speaker 1: to the sea side and out from one rock to
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  Speaker 1: another as far as I could go. It is a
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  Speaker 1: marvel I was not drowned, for when I was brought
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  Speaker 1: to a stand at last, my legs shook under me,
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  Speaker 1: and my mouth was so dry I must wet it
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  Speaker 1: with the sea water before I was able to shout.
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  Speaker 1: All this time the boat was coming on, and now
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  Speaker 1: I was able to perceive it was the same boat
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  Speaker 1: and the same two men as yesterday. This I knew
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  Speaker 1: by their hair, which the one had of a bright
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  Speaker 1: yellow and the other black. But now there was a
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  Speaker 1: third man along with them, who looked to be of
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  Speaker 1: a better class. As soon as they were come within
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  Speaker 1: easy speech, they let down their sail and lay quiet.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of my supplications, they drew no nearer in.
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  Speaker 1: And what frightened me most of all the new man
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  Speaker 1: Tea hewed with laughter as he talked and looked at me.
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  Speaker 1: Then he stood up in the boat and addressed me
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  Speaker 1: a long while, speaking fast and with many wavings of
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  Speaker 1: his hand. I told him in my head, no Gaelic.
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  Speaker 1: And at this he became very angry, and I began
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  Speaker 1: to suspect he thought he was talking English. Listing very close,
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  Speaker 1: I caught the word what heifer several times, but all
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  Speaker 1: the rest was Gaelic, and might have been Greek and Hebrew.
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  Speaker 1: For me, whatever said I to show him I had
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  Speaker 1: caught a word. Yes, yes, yes, yes, says he. And
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  Speaker 1: then he looked at the other men as much as
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  Speaker 1: to say I told you, I spoke English, and began again,
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  Speaker 1: as hard as ever in the Gaelic. This time I
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  Speaker 1: picked out another word, tide. Then I had a flash
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  Speaker 1: of hope. I remembered he was always waving his hand
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  Speaker 1: towards the mainland of the ross. Do you mean when
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  Speaker 1: the tide is out? I cried, and could not finish. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: said he tide. At that I turned tail upon their boat,
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  Speaker 1: where my adviser had once more begun to tee hee
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  Speaker 1: with laughter, leaped back the way I had come from
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  Speaker 1: one stone to another, and set off running across the
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  Speaker 1: aisle as I had never run before. In about half
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  Speaker 1: an hour I came out upon the shores of the creek,
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough it was shrunk into a little trickle
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  Speaker 1: of water, through which I dashed not above my knees,
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  Speaker 1: and landed with a shout on the main island. A
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  Speaker 1: sea bred boy would not have stayed a day on Erd,
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  Speaker 1: which is only what they call a tidal islet, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and left twice in every twenty four hours, either dry shod,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: or at the most by waiting even I who had
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the tide going out and in before me in the bay,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: my shellfish. Even I, I say, if I had sat
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: down to think instead of raging at my fate, must
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: have soon guessed the secret and got free. It was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: no wonder the fishers had not understood me. The wonder
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: was whether they had ever guessed my pitiful illusion and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: taken the trouble to come back. I had starved with
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: cold and hunger on that island for close upon one
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: hundred hours. But for the fissures, I might have left
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  Speaker 1: my bones there in pure folly. And even as it was,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I had paid for it pretty dear, not only in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: past sufferings, but in my present case, being clothed like
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a beggar man, scarce able to walk, and in great
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: pain of my sore throat. I have seen wicked men
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  Speaker 1: and fools, a great many of both, and I believe
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: they both get paid in the end. But the fools first,
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  Speaker 1: and of chapter