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'It were vain, continued Lord Lacy, 'to expect that courtesy from a mountain churl which even my own followers can forget. 'From MY king from my king! re-echoed the mountaineer. But Habby of Cessford will be here belive; and we shall soon know if he will permit an English churl to occupy his hostelrie.
Elijah he come strollin' down, quite habby, to this ancient riffer, singin' one little song; and the beoble they lug down those wicked brophets. Then Elijah take one big, long knife his uncle gif him and sharben it ubon a stone like what I'm doin'. Then he gif a chuckle and he look among those brophets; and he see one man he like the look of, nice and fat; and he say: "Bring me that man!"
'It were vain, continued Lord Lacy, 'to expect that courtesy from a mountain churl which even my own followers can forget. 'From MY king from my king! re-echoed the mountaineer. But Habby of Cessford will be here belive; and we shall soon know if he will permit an English churl to occupy his hostelrie.
Sitting at the opposite end of the room to his patron, he saw the wry faces which were turned away at every sip. Elias, quite beside himself with adulation, and intoxicated already by the success of his facetious sallies, drank and drank again with convivial gestures. "Ha, ha!" he cried, "I'm feelin' deflish habby. So fery nice to be with English beeble.
Magistrate say, vay slow ole semma idol talk: 'Dissa woman her lover are convert to behead by hev dey heads cut off till dey dead! What you fink, woman? Woman say: 'Yo' Excennency, I vay gnad to be behead wif my de-ah lover. I vay satisfaction we behead begedder. Our spi'its begedder habby fo'ever. Nen she turn kiss her beau; but he too scare to spe'k.
We hev vay short convisition beggedder, an' he say bling home glate many go' an' sivver mek you habby. Nen left us come shee you. "Nen, vay suddenity, dissa daughter say: 'I fink you ki' my husban', so you can rob! I hev you arres'. "An' she go to magistrate an' mek petition. Say her fadder-mudder to ki' her husban'. Her fadder-mudder bofe vay indignant; but was putta in jai'.
He iss the slafe of some richer man, some gompany, some gorporation, dat crindt him down to the least he can lif on, and that rops him of the marchin of his earnings that he knight pe habby on. Oh, you Amerigans, you haf cot it down goldt, as you say!
"You vas not habby, my leedle schild," he said kindly. "Dere's someding droubling you heart; put you gan no see vay inter der hefens drew dears do' dey vas glear as der lens off my glass." "I fear I shall have to see through tears very often, if I see at all," Mildred replied, with a low, suppressed sob. "Forgive me to-night.
Having been several times on errands of his father in Edinburgh before, he was not ill-acquainted with the town, and the moon being up, he had no difficulty in finding his way to Habby Bridle's, a noted stabler's at the foot of Leith Wynd, nigh the mouth of the North Loch, where gallants and other travellers of gentle condition commonly put up their horses.
Tom Smith, who used to drive the Alacrity coach, would often point to a tree near the river, from which a fine view of the church and town was commanded, and inform his companion on the box that "Artises come and take hoff the Church from that there tree It was a Habby once, sir:" and indeed a pretty view it is, which I recommend to Mr. Stanfield or Mr. Roberts, for their next tour.
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