He's a teugh carle Elshie! he grips like a smith's vice." "What has brought you here, Elliot ?" said Mareschal; "who called on you for interference ?" "Troth, Mareschal-Wells," answered Hobbie, "I am just come here, wi' twenty or thretty mair o' us, in my ain name and the King's--or Queen's, ca' they her?
and Canny Elshie's into the bargain, to keep the peace, and pay back some ill usage Ellieslaw has gien me.

A bonny breakfast the loons gae me the ither morning, and him at the bottom on't; and trow ye I wasna ready to supper him up ?--Ye needna lay your hands on your swords, gentlemen, the house is ours wi' little din; for the doors were open, and there had been ower muckle punch amang your folk; we took their swords and pistols as easily as ye wad shiel pea-cods." Mareschal rushed out, and immediately re-entered the chapel.
"By Heaven! it is true, Sir Frederick; the house is filled with armed men, and our drunken beasts are all disarmed.

Draw, and let us fight our way." "Binna rash--binna rash," exclaimed Hobbie; "hear me a bit, hear me a bit.

We mean ye nae harm; but, as ye are in arms for King James, as ye ca' him, and the prelates, we thought it right to keep up the auld neighbour war, and stand up for the t'other ane and the Kirk; but we'll no hurt a hair o' your heads, if ye like to gang hame quietly.

And it will be your best way, for there's sure news come frae Loudoun, that him they ca' Bang, or Byng, or what is't, has bang'd the French ships and the new king aff the coast however; sae ye had best bide content wi' auld Nanse for want of a better Queen." Ratcliffe, who at this moment entered, confirmed these accounts so unfavourable to the Jacobite interest.