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THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF

A HOUSE-BOAT,

II.

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SAMPSON LOW & Co., ST. DUNSTAN'S HOUSE, FETTER LANE, London.

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON. Illustrated. A PRINCESS OF THULE.

THE MAID OF KILLEENA; and other Tales.

MADCAP VIOLET.

GREEN PASTURES AND PICCADILLY.

MACLEOD OF DARE. With Illustrations.

WHITE WINGS: a Yachting Romance.

THE BEAUTIFUL WRETCH: The Four Macnicols: A Pupil of

Aurelius.

SHANDON BELLS.

JUDITH SHAKESPEARE.

YOLANDE: The Story of a Daughter.

THE WISE WOMEN OF INVERNESS, a Tale; and other Miscellanies. WHITE HEATHER.

SABINA ZEMBRA,

MACMILLAN & Co., LONDON.

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES

OF

A HOUSE-BOAT.

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BY

WILLIAM BLACK,

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON," ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,

LIMITED,

St. Dunstan's House,

FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.

1888.

[All rights reserved.]

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF

A HOUSE-BOAT.

CHAPTER I.

"Quoth I, 'My bird, my bonnie, bonnie bird,
Is that a tale ye borrow,

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Or is't some words ye've learnt by rote,
Or a lilt o' dool and sorrow?'

Oh, no, no, no,' the wee bird sang,

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I've flown since mornin' early;

But sic a day o' wind and rain—

O! wae's me for Prince Charlie!'"

On this still morning, while as yet the unknown world around us seems but half awake, there is a tall young lady, of slim and elegant figure, standing all alone in the stern of the boat. It is the Person without a Character. She has perched herself on the steersman's plank; her arms are placed on the transverse

VOL. II.

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