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Not satisfied with posing Leo in every posture, and with all possible gestures, his master, the artist, wanted him to look "heraldical"; that is, like some of the mythical beasts that were combinations of any and all creatures having fins, fur, feathers, or scales, such as the dragon or griffin. One day, he attempted to make out of a live lion a fanciful creature of curlicues and curliewurlies.
It is the only metropolitan church in Scotland, excepting, as I am informed, the Cathedral of Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, which remained uninjured at the Reformation; and Andrew Fairservice, who saw with great pride the effect which it produced upon my mind, thus accounted for its preservation "Ah! it's a brave kirk nane o' yere whig-maleeries and curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it.
It is the only metropolitan church in Scotland, excepting, as I am informed, the Cathedral of Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, which remained uninjured at the Reformation; and Andrew Fairservice, who saw with great pride the effect which it produced upon my mind, thus accounted for its preservation "Ah! it's a brave kirk nane o' yere whig-maleeries and curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it.
Giles, Edinburgh. It was given over to his tender mercies in 1829, a picturesque old building, and it left his hands in 1834 a bit of solid well-jointed mason-work with all Andrew Fairservice's "whigmaleeries, curliewurlies, and open steek hems" most thoroughly removed! Rob Roy, vol. viii. pp. 29-30.
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