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The Thirty-nine Steps

CHAPTER FIVE
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'It'll be easy eneuch managed.

I've finished that bing o' stanes, so you needna chap ony mair this forenoon.

Just take the barry, and wheel eneuch metal frae yon quarry doon the road to mak anither bing the morn.

My name's Alexander Turnbull, and I've been seeven year at the trade, and twenty afore that herdin' on Leithen Water.

My freens ca' me Ecky, and whiles Specky, for I wear glesses, being waik i' the sicht.


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