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Chapter Six The Skirts of the Coolin
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Obviously I must keep away from the railway. If the police were after me in Morvern, that line would be warned, for it was a barrier I must cross if I were to go farther north. I observed from the map that it turned up the coast, and concluded that the place for me to make for was the shore south of that turn, where Heaven might send me some luck in the boat line. For I was pretty certain that every porter and station-master on that tin-pot outfit1 was anxious to make better acquaintance with my humble2 self.
I lunched off the sandwiches the Broadburys had given me, and in the bright afternoon made my way down the hill, crossed at the foot of a small fresh-water lochan, and pursued the issuing stream through midge-infested woods of hazels to its junction4 with the sea. It was rough going, but very pleasant, and I fell into the same mood of idle contentment that I had enjoyed the previous morning. I never met a soul. Sometimes a roe5 deer broke out of the covert6, or an old blackcock startled me with his scolding. The place was bright with heather, still in its first bloom, and smelt7 better than the myrrh of Arabia. It was a blessed glen, and I was as happy as a king, till I began to feel the coming of hunger, and reflected that the Lord alone knew when I might get a meal. I had still some chocolate and biscuits, but I wanted something substantial.
The distance was greater than I thought, and it was already twilight8 when I reached the coast. The shore was open and desolate9 — great banks of pebbles10 to which straggled alders11 and hazels from the hillside scrub. But as I marched
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