The house-door was next unbarred, unlocked, and unchained, a dog's feet pattered upstairs in great haste, and the animal was heard scratching and whining at the door of the room.

Next a heavy step was heard lumbering up, and Mac-Guffog's voice in the character of pilot--'This way, this way; take care of the step; that's the room.' Bertram's door was then unbolted, and to his great surprise and joy his terrier, Wasp, rushed into the apartment and almost devoured him with caresses, followed by the massy form of his friend from Charlie's Hope.
'Eh whow! Eh whow!' ejaculated the honest farmer, as he looked round upon his friend's miserable apartment and wretched accommodation--'What's this o't! what's this o't!' 'Just a trick of fortune, my good friend,' said Bertram, rising and shaking him heartily by the hand, 'that's all.' 'But what will be done about it?
or what CAN be done about it ?' said honest Dandie.

'Is't for debt, or what is't for ?' 'Why, it is not for debt,' answered Bertram; 'and if you have time to sit down, I'll tell you all I know of the matter myself.' 'If I hae time ?' said Dandie, with an accent on the word that sounded like a howl of derision.

'Ou, what the deevil am I come here for, man, but just ance errand to see about it?
But ye'll no be the waur o' something to eat, I trow; it's getting late at e'en.

I tell'd the folk at the Change, where I put up Dumple, to send ower my supper here, and the chield Mac-Guffog is agreeable to let it in; I hae settled a' that.