But thou kens I'm an outspoken Yorkshire tyke.

And how go markets in the south ?" "Even in the ordinar," replied Mr.Campbell; "wise folks buy and sell, and fools are bought and sold." "But wise men and fools both eat their dinner," answered our jolly entertainer; "and here a comes--as prime a buttock of beef as e'er hungry men stuck fork in." So saying, he eagerly whetted his knife, assumed his seat of empire at the head of the board, and loaded the plates of his sundry guests with his good cheer.
This was the first time I had heard the Scottish accent, or, indeed, that I had familiarly met with an individual of the ancient nation by whom it was spoken.

Yet, from an early period, they had occupied and interested my imagination.

My father, as is well known to you, was of an ancient family in Northumberland, from whose seat I was, while eating the aforesaid dinner, not very many miles distant.

The quarrel betwixt him and his relatives was such, that he scarcely ever mentioned the race from which he sprung, and held as the most contemptible species of vanity, the weakness which is commonly termed family pride.