Greatly daring, I ventured, before all these Scotsmen, to tell Sim's Tale of Tweedie's dog; and I was held to have done such extraordinary justice to the dialect, 'for a Southron,' that I was immediately voted into the Chair of Scots, and became, from that moment, a full member of the University of Cramond.

A little after, I found myself entertaining them with a song; and a little after--perhaps a little in consequence--it occurred to me that I had had enough, and would be very well inspired to take French leave.

It was not difficult to manage, for it was nobody's business to observe my movements, and conviviality had banished suspicion.
I got easily forth of the chamber, which reverberated with the voices of these merry and learned gentlemen, and breathed a long breath.

I had passed an agreeable afternoon and evening, and I had apparently escaped scot free.

Alas! when I looked into the kitchen, there was my monkey, drunk as a lord, toppling on the edge of the dresser, and performing on the flageolet to an audience of the house lasses and some neighbouring ploughmen.
I routed him promptly from his perch, stuck his hat on, put his instrument in his pocket, and set off with him for Edinburgh.
His limbs were of paper, his mind quite in abeyance; I must uphold and guide him, prevent his frantic dives, and set him continually on his legs again.