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But I gaed to see him an' I needna hae been sae feart, for he minded on me, an' he wadna hear o' me bidin' at the taivern, an' he took me to his graun hoose, an' he was ower guid to a plain cratur like me. "Weel, ae mornin', we was sittin', haein' oor crack aboot the auld days, an' the schule, an' the sheep we herded thegither on the Ettrick hills.
And, however she arrayed herself, the Thespian Club would not admit her. . . . "Well, have you thought out your speech?" asked Lord Ettrick. "I've been thinking about what you said before dinner," Eric answered. "Don't take it too seriously. You know how people talk." "Yes, but I don't want them to talk like that about her! She's the best friend I've got."
B. was a man of striking appearance and great vigour and originality of character and mind. His writings hold a unique place in English literature. Scottish divine, was successively schoolmaster at Glencairn, and minister of Simprin in Berwickshire, and Ettrick in Selkirkshire.
To quote once more the oracular words of the Ettrick orator and poet, "Ane gets tired o' that eternal soun' Blackwood's Magazeen, Blackwood's Magazeen dinnin' in ane's lugs, day and nicht!" So vast and so varied I suppose to be the commercial relations of Reprint & Co., and such, beyond a doubt, is Maga's empire in America. No more by this steamer.
However, Gaveston showed more martial zeal than his master. He led an expedition which penetrated as far as Perth, and reduced the country between the Forth and the Grampians to Edward's obedience. Gloucester also pacified the forest of Ettrick. To these two all the little honour of the campaign belonged. The Earl of Lincoln governed England as regent during the king's absence.
He is what the 'Ettrick Shepherd' calls a 'Sumph. You have no guardian, I can tell you that. Before this he has gone through all the transmigrations of 'Indur, and the final metempsychosis, gave him to the world a Celestial. Yes, child; a Celestial.
As our family worship and our public ministry will do, too, when we have the eye and the heart and the conscience that Thomas Boston had. 'I went to hear a preacher, said Pascal, 'and I found a man in the pulpit. Well, the parish minister of Mansoul was a man, and so was the parish minister of Ettrick.
Walter Scott owed to Dandie the text of the "Raid of Wearie" in the "Minstrelsy"; and made him welcome at his house, and appreciated his talents, such as they were, with all his usual generosity. The Ettrick Shepherd was his sworn crony; they would meet, drink to excess, roar out their lyrics in each other's faces, and quarrel and make it up again till bedtime.
But between the irrelevant brief story, interpolated in a larger narrative, and the perfect short-story, which could not be expanded and is total in itself, of Hawthorne and Poe, there stands the work of a man who is little known in America, and by no means popular in England, that of the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg.
The last Brownie known in Ettrick Forest resided in Bodsbeck, a wild and solitary spot, near the head of Moffat Water, where he exercised his functions undisturbed, till the scrupulous devotion of an old lady induced her to "hire him away," as it was termed, by placing in his haunt a porringer of milk and a piece of money.
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