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'We're at the auld wark o' the marches again, Jock o' Dawston Cleugh and me.
In short, I had got my matters settled, and hame I cam; and the morn awa to the muirs to see what the herds had been about, and I thought I might as weel gie a look to the Touthope Head, where Jock o' Dawston and me has the outcast about a march.
And as the law binds us, the law should loose us. Besides, a man's aye the better thought o' in our country for having been afore the Feifteen. 'Excellently argued, my friend! Away with you, and send your papers to me. Come, Colonel, we have no more to do here. 'God, we'll ding Jock o' Dawston Cleugh now after a'! said Dinmont, slapping his thigh in great exultation.
He's a camsteary chield, and fasheous about marches, and we've had some bits o' splores thegither; but deil o'meif I wad wrang Jock o' Dawston neither. 'Thou'rt an honest fellow, said the Lawyer; 'get thee to bed. Thou wilt sleep sounder, I warrant thee, than many a man that throws off an embroidered coat and puts on a laced nightcap. Colonel, I see you are busy with our enfant trouve.
He's a camsteary chield, and fasheous about marches, and we've had some bits o' splores thegither; but deil o'meif I wad wrang Jock o' Dawston neither. 'Thou'rt an honest fellow, said the Lawyer; 'get thee to bed. Thou wilt sleep sounder, I warrant thee, than many a man that throws off an embroidered coat and puts on a laced nightcap. Colonel, I see you are busy with our enfant trouve.
And as the law binds us, the law should loose us. Besides, a man's aye the better thought o' in our country for having been afore the Feifteen. 'Excellently argued, my friend! Away with you, and send your papers to me. Come, Colonel, we have no more to do here. 'God, we'll ding Jock o' Dawston Cleugh now after a'! said Dinmont, slapping his thigh in great exultation.
Now, I say the march rins on the tap o' the hill where the wind and water shears; but Jock o' Dawston Cleugh again, he contravenes that, and says that it bauds down by the auld drove-road that gaes awa by the Knot o' the Gate ower to Keeldar Ward; and that makes an unco difference. 'And what difference does it make, friend? said Pleydell. 'How many sheep will it feed?
He's a camsteary chield, and fasheous about marches, and we've had some bits o' splores thegither; but deil o' me if I wad wrang Jock o' Dawston neither. 'Thou'rt an honest fellow, said the Lawyer; 'get thee to bed. Thou wilt sleep sounder, I warrant thee, than many a man that throws off an embroidered coat and puts on a laced nightcap. Colonel, I see you are busy with our enfant trouve.
Pleydell, your honour kens mony things, but ye dinna ken the farm o' Charlie's Hope; it's sae weel stockit already that we sell maybe sax hundred pounds off it ilka year, flesh and fell the gither; na, na. 'Can't you take another then? 'What, not upon thy neighbour at Dawston Devilstone how d 'ye call the place? 'What, on Jock o' Dawston? hout na.
I am going to the parliament; You understand this bag. If you have any business Depending there be short, and let me hear it, And pay your fees. Little French Lawyer 'Shall you be able to carry this honest fellow's cause for him? said Mannering. 'Why, I don't know; the battle is not to the strong, but he shall come off triumphant over Jock of Dawston if we can make it out. I owe him something.
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