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They
were
arranged
without
any
order
,
and
seemed
to
be
constructed
with
very
little
attention
to
neatness
or
beauty
.
Indeed
,
so
very
inferior
were
they
in
the
two
latter
particulars
to
the
village
Duncan
had
just
seen
,
that
he
began
to
expect
a
second
surprise
,
no
less
astonishing
than
the
former
.
This
expectation
was
in
no
degree
diminished
,
when
,
by
the
doubtful
twilight
,
he
beheld
twenty
or
thirty
forms
rising
alternately
from
the
cover
of
the
tall
,
coarse
grass
,
in
front
of
the
lodges
,
and
then
sinking
again
from
the
sight
,
as
it
were
to
burrow
in
the
earth
.
By
the
sudden
and
hasty
glimpses
that
he
caught
of
these
figures
,
they
seemed
more
like
dark
glancing
spectres
,
or
some
other
unearthly
beings
,
than
creatures
fashioned
with
the
ordinary
and
vulgar
materials
of
flesh
and
blood
.
A
gaunt
,
naked
form
was
seen
,
for
a
single
instant
,
tossing
its
arms
wildly
in
the
air
,
and
then
the
spot
it
had
filled
was
vacant
;
the
figure
appearing
suddenly
in
some
other
and
distant
place
,
or
being
succeeded
by
another
,
possessing
the
same
mysterious
character
.
David
,
observing
that
his
companion
lingered
,
pursued
the
direction
of
his
gaze
,
and
in
some
measure
recalled
the
recollection
of
Heyward
,
by
speaking
.
"
There
is
much
fruitful
soil
uncultivated
here
,
"
he
said
;
"
and
I
may
add
,
without
the
sinful
leaven
of
self-commendation
,
that
since
my
short
sojourn
in
these
heathenish
abodes
,
much
good
seed
has
been
scattered
by
the
wayside
"
"
The
tribes
are
fonder
of
the
chase
than
of
the
arts
of
men
of
labor
,
"
returned
the
unconscious
Duncan
,
still
gazing
at
the
objects
of
his
wonder
.
"
It
is
rather
joy
than
labor
to
the
spirit
,
to
lift
up
the
voice
in
praise
;
but
sadly
do
these
boys
abuse
their
gifts
.
Rarely
have
I
found
any
of
their
age
,
on
whom
nature
has
so
freely
bestowed
the
elements
of
psalmody
;
and
surely
,
surely
,
there
are
none
who
neglect
them
more
.
Three
nights
have
I
now
tarried
here
,
and
three
several
times
have
I
assembled
the
urchins
to
join
in
sacred
song
;
and
as
often
have
they
responded
to
my
efforts
with
whoopings
and
howlings
that
have
chilled
my
soul
!
"
"
Of
whom
speak
you
?
"
"
Of
those
children
of
the
devil
,
who
waste
the
precious
moments
in
yonder
idle
antics
.
Ah
!
the
wholesome
restraint
of
discipline
is
but
little
known
among
this
self-abandoned
people
.
In
a
country
of
birches
,
a
rod
is
never
seen
;
and
it
ought
not
to
appear
a
marvel
in
my
eyes
,
that
the
choicest
blessings
of
Providence
are
wasted
in
such
cries
as
these
.
"
David
closed
his
ears
against
the
juvenile
pack
,
whose
yell
just
then
rang
shrilly
through
the
forest
;
and
Duncan
,
suffering
his
lip
to
curl
,
as
in
mockery
of
his
own
superstition
,
said
firmly
:
"
We
will
proceed
.
"
Without
removing
the
safeguards
from
his
ears
,
the
master
of
song
complied
,
and
together
they
pursued
their
way
towards
what
David
was
sometimes
wont
to
call
"
the
tents
of
the
Philistines
.
"
"
But
though
the
beast
of
game
