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You must stay in the patch, and let your enemies search it and not find you. If you are hemmed in on all sides in a patch of land—there is only one chance of escape. Bein’ a teetotaler, I keepit off the whisky, but I was nipnippin’ a’ day yestereen at this brandy, and I doubt I’ll no be weel for a fortnicht.” ∺ head hetter than hell fire and twae een lookin’ different ways for the Sabbath.” He swung his heels up on the seat and burrowed a frowsy head into the cushions. No even at Hogmanay, though I was sair tempted.” “I took the pledge last Martinmass, and I havena touched a drop o’ whisky syne. ∺ye, but I’m a strong teetotaler,” he said pugnaciously. I expressed my surprise that in him I should have met a blue-ribbon stalwart. “That’s what comes o’ bein’ a teetotaler,” he observed in bitter regret. Copyright © 1915 by the Curtis Publishing CompanyĬopyright © 1915, 1916, 1919 by Houghton Mifflin CompanyĬopyright © 1943 by Lady Susan Tweedsmuir