We gave Archie the peaches, and he looked delighted.
'Good-bye, old man,' said Dugald, as he presented him with his.
'Speak a word or two of Gaelic to him,' said our Archie.
Sandie Donaldson was indeed astonished at all we told him.
'I suppose it's all right,' he said, 'but dear me, that was an uncanny-looking creature you had hirpling on in front of you!'
In the evening, just as we had returned from a most successful guanaco hunt, we found Donaldson's uncanny creature coming along the path.
'I suppose he means us to dine with him,' I remarked.
'Ah, ah, ah! Yah, ah, yah!' cried the baboon.
'Well, will you come, Sandie?'
Sandie shook his head.