Accordingly, when he got about the level of Fairmilehead, the gauger would take his flute, without which he never travelled, from his pocket, fit it together, and set manfully to playing, as if for his own delectation and inspired by the beauty of the scene.

His favourite air, it seems, was 'Over the hills and far away.' At the first note, the distiller pricked his ears.
A flute at Fairmilehead?
and playing 'Over the hills and far away ?' This must be his friendly enemy, the gauger.

Instantly horses were harnessed, and sundry barrels of whisky were got upon a cart, driven at a gallop round Hill End, and buried in the mossy glen behind Kirk Yetton.

In the same breath, you may be sure, a fat fowl was put to the fire, and the whitest napery prepared for the back parlour.

A little after, the gauger, having had his fill of music for the moment, came strolling down with the most innocent air imaginable, and found the good people at Bow Bridge taken entirely unawares by his arrival, but none the less glad to see him.