Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures

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Crockett Samuel Rutherford. Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures

ADVENTURE I. THE OUTCASTING OF CLEG KELLY

ADVENTURE II. THE BURNING OF THE WHINNY KNOWES

ADVENTURE III. WHY CLEG KELLY HATED HIS FATHER

ADVENTURE IV. HOW ISBEL KELLY HEARD SWEET MUSIC

ADVENTURE V. THE BRIGANDS OF THE CITY

ADVENTURE VI. CLEG TURNS BURGLAR

ADVENTURE VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COCKROACHES

ADVENTURE VIII. THE FLIGHT OF SHEEMUS

ADVENTURE IX. THE WARMING OF THE DRABBLE

ADVENTURE X. THE SQUARING OF THE POLICE

ADVENTURE XI. THE BOY IN THE WOODEN HUT

ADVENTURE XII. VARA KAVANNAH OF THE TINKLERS' LANDS

ADVENTURE XIII. CLEG'S SECOND BURGLARY

ADVENTURE XIV. CLEG TURNS DIPLOMATIST

ADVENTURE XV. THE FIRE IN CALLENDAR'S YARD

ADVENTURE XVI. IN THE KEY OF BOY NATURAL

ADVENTURE XVII. THE KNUCKLE DUSTERS

ADVENTURE XVIII. BIG SMITH SUBDUES THE KNUCKLE DUSTERS

ADVENTURE XIX. THE PILGRIMS OF THE PENNY GAFF

ADVENTURE XX. THE DIFFICULTIES OF ADONIS BETWIXT TWO VENUSES

ADVENTURE XXI. AN IDYLL OF BOGIE ROLL

ADVENTURE XXII. THE SEDUCTION OF A BAILIE

ADVENTURE XXIII. THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT-SHIFT MAN

ADVENTURE XXIV. THE CROOK IN THE LOT OF CLEAVER'S BOY

ADVENTURE XXV. A COMELY PROVIDENCE IN A NEW FROCK

ADVENTURE XXVI. R. S. V. P

ADVENTURE XXVII. JANET OF INVERNESS TASTES THE HERB BITTER-SWEET

ADVENTURE XXVIII. THE ENGINE-DRIVER WITH THE BEARD

ADVENTURE XXIX. MUCKLE ALICK'S BANNOCKBURN

ADVENTURE XXX. HOW GEORDIE GRIERSON'S ENGINE BROKE ITS BUFFER

ADVENTURE XXXI. THE "AWFU' WOMAN."

ADVENTURE XXXII. MAID GREATHEART AND HER PILGRIMS

ADVENTURE XXXIII. THE BABES IN THE HAYSTACK

ADVENTURE XXXIV. THAT OF MARY BELL, BYRE LASS

ADVENTURE XXXV. THE KNIGHT IN THE SOFT HAT

ADVENTURE XXXVI. THE MADNESS OF HUGH BOY

ADVENTURE XXXVII. BOY HUGH FINDS OUT THE NATURE OF A KISS

ADVENTURE XXXVIII. OF MISS BRIGGS AND HER TEN CATS

ADVENTURE XXXIX. THE ADVENTURE OF SNAP'S PORRIDGE

ADVENTURE XL. A NEW KIND OF HERO

ADVENTURE XLI "TWA LADDIES – AND A LASSIE."

ADVENTURE XLII. MUCKLE ALICK CONSIDERS

ADVENTURE XLIII. TOWN KNIGHT AND COUNTRY KNIGHT

ADVENTURE XLIV. CLEG RELAPSES INTO PAGANISM

ADVENTURE XLV. THE CABIN ON THE SUMMIT

ADVENTURE XLVI. A CHILD OF THE DEVIL

ADVENTURE XLVII. THE SLEEP OF JAMES CANNON, SIGNALMAN

ADVENTURE XLVIII. MUCKLE ALICK SEES THE DISTANT SIGNAL STAND AT CLEAR

ADVENTURE XLIX. CLEG COLLECTS TICKETS

ADVENTURE L. GENERAL THEOPHILUS RUFF

ADVENTURE LI. THE GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT

ADVENTURE LII. THE THREE COFFINS IN THE STRONG-ROOM

ADVENTURE LIII. A STORMY MORNING AT LOCH SPELLANDERIE

ADVENTURE LIV. KIT KENNEDY'S FAREWELL

ADVENTURE LV. A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY

ADVENTURE LVI. THE VOICES IN THE MARSH

ADVENTURE LVII. FIGHTING THE BEASTS

ADVENTURE LVIII. WITHIN THE RED DOOR

ADVENTURE LIX. THE BEECH HEDGE

ADVENTURE LX. CLEG'S TREASURE-TROVE COMES TO HIM

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Cleg Kelly was now outcast and alien from the commonwealth. He had denied the faith, cast aside every known creed, and defied the Deity Himself. Soon he would defy the policeman and break the laws of man – which is the natural course of progression in iniquity, as every one knows.

So leaving Hunker Court he struck across the most unfrequented streets, where only a stray urchin (probably a benighted Episcopalian) was spending the Sabbath chivying cats, to the mountainous regions of Craigside, where the tall "lands" of St. Leonards look out upon the quarried crags and steep hill ridges of Arthur's Seat. For Cleg was fortunate enough to be a town boy who had the country at his command just over the wall – and a wall, too, which he could climb at as many as twenty points. Only bare stubby feet, however, could overpass these perilous clefts. Cleg's great toes, horny as if shod with iron, fitted exactly into the stone crevices from which the mortar had been loosened. His grimy little fingers found a purchase in the slightest nicks. And once on the other side, there was no policeman, park-keeper, or other person in authority, who could make the pace with Cleg's bare brown legs, at least up the loose clatter of the shingle between the lower greensward and the Radical Road.

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"Faith," answered Cleg, "ye should be braw an' thankfu', Warrior, for ye hae gotten what ye haena had for years, and had muckle need o'!"

"And what was that, ye de'il's buckie?" cried the angry ranger.

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