When did I find myself on foot in a misty morning, with my hand, just for fear of going astray, linked into a handcuff, as they call it, with poor Harry Redgauntlet's fastened into the other; and there we were, trudging along, with about a score more that had thrust their horns ower deep in the bog, just like ourselves, and a sergeant's guard of redcoats, with twa file of dragoons, to keep all quiet, and give us heart to the road.

Now, if this mode of travelling was not very pleasant, the object did not particularly recommend it; for, you understand, young man, that they did not trust these poor rebel bodies to be tried by juries of their ain kindly countrymen, though ane would have thought they would have found Whigs enough in Scotland to hang us all; but they behoved to trounce us away to be tried at Carlisle, where the folk had been so frightened, that had you brought a whole Highland clan at once into the court, they would have put their hands upon their een, and cried, "hang them a'," just to be quit of them.' 'Aye, aye,' said the provost, 'that was a snell law, I grant ye.' 'Snell!' said the wife, 'snell! I wish they that passed it had the jury I would recommend them to!' 'I suppose the young lawyer thinks it all very right,' said Summertrees, looking at Fairford--'an OLD lawyer might have thought otherwise.
However, the cudgel was to be found to beat the dog, and they chose a heavy one.

Well, I kept my spirits better than my companion, poor fellow; for I had the luck to have neither wife nor child to think about, and Harry Redgauntlet had both one and t'other .-- You have seen Harry, Mrs.Crosbie ?' 'In troth have I,' said she, with the sigh which we give to early recollections, of which the object is no more.

'He was not so tall as his brother, and a gentler lad every way.

After he married the great English fortune, folk called him less of a Scottishman than Edward.' 'Folk lee'd, then,' said Summertrees; 'poor Harry was none of your bold-speaking, ranting reivers, that talk about what they did yesterday, or what they will do to-morrow; it was when something was to do at the moment that you should have looked at Harry Redgauntlet.