The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 155: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. . 149 CHAPTER: XV. “ SANDY'S LITTLE SCRBECH-GOD ‘TURNS THE TABLES. “THe canny Scot can 1 point with pride to cha, heroie achicnements of his clan from the days of Wallace-and Bruce down to the Crimea, In his veins flows thie blood of warriors, and it is hardly likely that he will flinch when brought face.to face with an unorganized mob of Persian and Arab cutthroats. _Sandy chances to have no weapons on his person at the time, though he owns a wonderful claymore that is hacked and dented with blows aimed against some sturdy ancestor who fought at Bannockburn. This reposes snugly with his leathern trunk at the French tavern of M. Prevost. It might just as well be in the window of a dealer in old curios over in Fleet Street, London, for all the good it can do our Sawney in this time of need. But the Campbell is a man of. ready wit, and able to 7 seize upon whatever weapon comes most handy. Needs. must when the devil drives. As a piper he has been more in the habit of inspiring the troops in the hour of battle than personally taking comicbooks.conn