He said to himself, 'Aye, aye, here are fingers that have seen canny service.' Then running his hand over my hair, my face, and my dress, he went on with his soliloquy; 'Aye, aye, muisted hair, braidclaith o' the best, and seenteen hundred linen on his back, at the least o' it.

And how do you think, my braw birkie, that you are to pass for a tramping fiddler ?' 'My dress is plain,' said I,--indeed I had chosen my most ordinary suit, out of compliment to my Quaker friends,--'and I can easily pass for a young farmer out upon a frolic.

Come, I will double the crown I promised you.' 'Damn your crowns!' said the disinterested man of music.

'I would like to have a round wi' you, that's certain;--but a farmer, and with a hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle, that will never do.

Ye may pass for a trades-lad from Dumfries, or a student upon the ramble, or the like o' that.