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In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.

They went by without a sound but the confused patter of weary feet upon the quaggy trail, and left an impressive silence behind them when they plunged into the gloom again.

The long train had run out of the forest in the night, and was now speeding over a vast white level which lay soft and quaggy in the sunshine, for the snow had lately gone.

Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.

He knew well the evil record of that quaggy ground, and of the gleaming, sheening flats—the ruthless oozy flats which tell no tales.