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away with him — run riot, I ought to call it. Your 

 indulgence, my friends, and your further patience 

 while I touch on the matter that brought me to 

 my feet. And let me say by way of preliminary 

 and to all alike, don't be overreachin' ; don't, 

 simply to keep others out, claim more water than 

 you can search. " Live and let live " is a good 

 motto for a sportsman, be he Englishman or Scot ; 

 and this I'm sure of, that my friend beside me 

 will look at things as a big-minded man always 

 do, and prove himself the good neighbour we've 

 taken him for. 



' Mr. Macpherson, we've treated 'ee like one of 

 ourselves since the coach dropped 'ee at the cross- 

 roads now three year back ; the more so, maybe, 

 since we've got to understand your mouthspeech. 

 True, there was a little soreness because Zachy 

 Kelynack didn't get the job, but only for a month 

 or two ; and we did our best to hide it, agreein' 

 among ourselves that if the Duchy slighted our 

 own man, 'twas no fault of yourn, and no case 

 for pitchin' and featherin', or even for the pump. 

 Come to look back upon it, for a rough-and- 

 ready sort of people, whose parish is their world, 

 we met thee handsomely, though I say it, as I 

 hope we shall every strainyer who looks us 

 straight in the eyes and does his duty without 



