He was a heartsome pleasant man, and company for the best gentlemen in the county, and muckle mirth he's made in this house.

I was young then, sir, and newly married to Bailie Mac-Candlish, that's dead and gone (a sigh); and muckle fun I've had wi' the Supervisor.

He was a daft dog.

O, an he could hae hauden aff the smugglers a bit! but he was aye venturesome.

And so ye see, sir, there was a king's sloop down in Wigton Bay, and Frank Kennedy, he behoved to have her up to chase Dirk Hatteraick's lugger--ye'll mind Dirk Hatteraick, Deacon?
I daresay ye may have dealt wi' him--( the Deacon gave a sort of acquiescent nod and humph).