Does the JUMPING JENNY sail this tide ?' 'Aye, aye, sir; she sails for'-- 'I did not ask you WHERE she sailed for, Job,' said the old gentleman, interrupting him.

'I thank my Maker, I know nothing of their incomings or outgoings.

I sell my article fairly and in the ordinary way of business; and I wash my hands of everything else.

But what I wished to know is, whether the gentleman called the Laird of the Solway Lakes is on the other side of the Border even now ?' 'Aye, aye,' said Job, 'the laird is something in my own line, you know--a little contraband or so, There is a statute for him--But no matter; he took the sands after the splore at the Quaker's fish-traps yonder; for he has a leal heart, the laird, and is always true to the country-side.

But avast--is all snug here ?' So saying, he suddenly turned on Alan Fairford the light side of the lantern he carried, who, by the transient gleam which it threw in passing on the man who bore it, saw a huge figure, upwards of six feet high, with a rough hairy cap on his head, and a set of features corresponding to his bulky frame.