But I was saying, there's some siller in the spleuchan that's like the Captain's ain, for we've aye counted it such, baith Ailie and me." 'No, no, Liddesdale; no occasion, no occasion whatever.

Keep thy cash to stock thy farm.' 'To stock my farm?
Mr.Pleydell, your honour kens mony things, but ye dinna ken the farm o' Charlie's Hope; it's sae weel stockit already that we sell maybe sax hundred pounds off it ilka year, flesh and fell the gither; na, na.' 'Can't you take another then ?' 'I dinna ken; the Deuke's no that fond o' led farms, and he canna bide to put away the auld tenantry; and then I wadna like mysell to gang about whistling [Footnote: See Note 7.] and raising the rent on my neighbours.' 'What, not upon thy neighbour at Dawston--Devilstone--how d 'ye call the place ?' 'What, on Jock o' Dawston?
hout na.

He's a camsteary chield, and fasheous about marches, and we've had some bits o' splores thegither; but deil o'meif I wad wrang Jock o' Dawston neither.' 'Thou'rt an honest fellow,' said the Lawyer; 'get thee to bed.

Thou wilt sleep sounder, I warrant thee, than many a man that throws off an embroidered coat and puts on a laced nightcap.

Colonel, I see you are busy with our enfant trouve.