Chapter 21 A KETTLE OF FISH.

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'Our Pursuivant at arms will show

Both why we came and when we go.'

Scott.

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The place of the pic-nic was a good way off, being the point of the promontory that shut in the mouth of the river, a great crag, with a long reef of rocks running out into the sea, playfully called the Kitten's Tail; though the antiquarians always