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"But I'm saying, Dand" she came nearer him "I'm for the muirs. I must have a braith of air. If Clem was to be speiring for me, try and quaiet him, will ye no?" "What way?" said Dandie. "I ken but the ae way, and that's leein'. I'll say ye had a sair heed, if ye like." "But I havena," she objected. "I daursay no," he returned.
"Dand! ye're the auld man yet naething will make ye take warning till ye're brought hame some day wi' your feet foremost." So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in despatching his breakfast, as, "the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely." Out they sallied accordingly for Otterscopescaurs, the farmer leading the way.
'There wull be a muckle ghaists aboot? inquired Meg, as she gazed anxiously upon the wild expanse of moor, grasslands, and bog that stretched away, boundless as the sea, to an infinite horizon. Not but what there's the "Bargeist" he's mestitched, yet red thread i' your mutch and a branch o' the rowan tree will keep him awa nicelies. And Dand kens fine how to fettle him whether by day or night
For this "God's Remnant," as they were "skailing" from the cottage that did duty for a temple, had been repeatedly stoned by the bairns, and Gib himself hooted by a squadron of Border volunteers in which his own brother, Dand, rode in a uniform and with a drawn sword.
Though an eminently solid man at bottom, after the pattern of Hob, he had contracted a certain Glasgow briskness and aplomb which set him off. All the other Elliotts were as lean as a rake, but Clement was laying on fat, and he panted sorely when he must get into his boots. Dand said, chuckling: "Ay, Clem has the elements of a corporation." "A provost and corporation," returned Clem.
'It's caad whiles outside i' the wunter, admitted Si, 'yet i' the but wi' aad Maud the collie an' her litter, Dand the shepherd, an' Sall his wife about the blazing peats on the hearth ye'll be warmer an' cosier than the Queen of Scotland.
She was named for me, or my grandmother at least it's the same thing," returned the aunt, and went on again about Dand, whom she secretly preferred by reason of his gallantries. "But what is your niece like?" said Archie at the next opportunity. "Her? As black's your hat! But I dinna suppose she would maybe be what you would ca' ILL-LOOKED a'thegither.
"I said I would say ye had; and if ye like to nay-say me when ye come back, it'll no mateerially maitter, for my chara'ter's clean gane a'ready past reca'." "O, Dand, are ye a leear?" she asked, lingering. "Folks say sae," replied the bard. "Wha says sae?" she pursued. "Them that should ken the best," he responded. "The lassies, for ane." "But, Dand, you would never lee to me?" she asked.
'Dand! ye're the auld man yet; naething will make ye take warning till ye're brought hame some day wi' your feet foremost. 'Tut, lass! answered Dandle, 'ye ken yoursell I am never a prin the waur o' my rambles. So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in despatching his breakfast, as, 'the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.
As for Dand, it will be enough to describe their first meeting, when Frank had been whipping a river and the rustic celebrity chanced to come along the path. "I'm told you're quite a poet," Frank had said. "Wha tell't ye that, mannie?" had been the unconciliating answer. "O, everybody!" says Frank. "God! Here's fame!" said the sardonic poet, and he had passed on his way.
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