"Putting his head in a bees' byke!" "He is to turn the tenants out by force, I hear ?" said I.
"Yes," says he, "but the business has gone back and forth, as folk say.
First, James of the Glens rode to Edinburgh, and got some lawyer (a Stewart, nae doubt--they all hing together like bats in a steeple) and had the proceedings stayed.

And then Colin Campbell cam' in again, and had the upper-hand before the Barons of Exchequer.

And now they tell me the first of the tenants are to flit to-morrow.

It's to begin at Duror under James's very windows, which doesnae seem wise by my humble way of it." "Do you think they'll fight ?" I asked.
"Well," says Henderland, "they're disarmed--or supposed to be--for there's still a good deal of cold iron lying by in quiet places.

And then Colin Campbell has the sogers coming.