“Blonde or brunette?” said Jimmy casually.
“Eh? What’s that?”
“The something else that you wouldn’t tell me about,” Jimmy explained. “Is she blonde or brunette?”
“Oh, go to hell!” said Billy.
CHAPTER IX
TAKEN
“Lord Huntley then he did speak out—
O, fair mot fa’ his body!—
‘I here will fight doublet alane
Or ony thing ails Geordie!
“‘Whom has he robbed? What has he stole?
Or has he killed ony?
Or what’s the crime that he has done
His foes they are so mony?’”