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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER XVIII
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If the King will not keep us, we will keep ourselves.

Ring the bells backward, every bell of them that is made of metal.

Cry, and spare not, St.Johnston's hunt is up!" "Ay," cried another citizen, "and let us to the holds of Albany and the Douglas, and burn them to the ground.

Let the fires tell far and near that Perth knew how to avenge her stout Henry Gow.

He has fought a score of times for the Fair City's right; let us show we can once to avenge his wrong.


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