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Come hither into the compting-room, Roberts. Sir Mungo," he added, bowing to the knight, who had joined, and was preparing to follow them, "I pray your forgiveness for an instant."
"Come, come, Mungo," said he, "the Count could scarcely be expected to wait for the cooking of an animal running wild in the bracken twenty minutes ago." "Oh, it disna tak' sae terrible lang to cook a hare," said the unabashed retainer. "But was it a hare after a', Mungo?" asked his master. "Are ye sure it wasna a rabbit?"
"What for did ye open the door, Mungo?" asked Doom, not the Doom of doleful days, of melancholy evenings of study and of sour memories, not the done man, but one alert and eager, a soldier, in the poise of his body, the set of his limbs, the spirit of his eye. "Here's a new man!" thought Montaiglon, silently regarding him. "Devilry appears to have a marvellous power of stimulation."
"Then, like some of his countrymen, madam," said the pitiless Sir Mungo, not without a glance towards his landlord, "he has been well larded in England." "There are some others of his countrymen," answered Master Heriot, "to whom all the lard in England has not been able to render that good office."
Under the stern rule, indeed, of George Buchanan, who did not approve of the vicarious mode of punishment, James bore the penance of his own faults, and Mungo Malagrowther enjoyed a sinecure; but James's other pedagogue, Master Patrick Young, went more ceremoniously to work, and appalled the very soul of the youthful king by the floggings which he bestowed on the whipping-boy, when the royal task was not suitably performed.
To add to the morning's cheerfulness Mungo was afoot whistling a ballad air of the low country, with a regard for neither time nor tune in his puckered lips as he sat on a firkin-head at an outhouse door and gutted some fish he had caught with his own hands in a trammel net at the river-mouth before Montaiglon was awake and the bird, as the Gaelic goes, had drunk the water.
"Ye shall hear, my lord," said Sir Mungo, "the Prince's vera words 'Sir Mungo, said he, 'I rejoice to see you, and am glad your rheumatic troubles permit you to come hither for exercise. I bowed, as in duty bound ye might remark, my lord, that I did so, whilk formed the first branch of our conversation.
Bathurst was unknown in the days of Mungo Park, when traders ran up stream to Jilifri, nearly opposite Fort James, and to Pisania, the end of river-navigation. St. Mary's Island, together with British Combo, Albreda, and the land called the 'Ceded, or 'English Mile, were bought from the Mandenga chief of the Combo province. First christened St.
I trust that the Prince and his retinue will return this way as you expect; for I will abide, Sir Mungo, and beard them." "Beard them!" exclaimed Sir Mungo, in the extremity of surprise, "Beard the Prince of Wales the heir-apparent of the kingdoms! By my saul, you shall beard him yourself then."
Memoir delivered by Mungo Park, Esq. to Lord CAMDEN, on the 4th of October, 1804. "A particular account 1st. of the objects to which Mr. Park's attention will be chiefly directed in his journey to the Interior of Africa: 2dly. of the means necessary for accomplishing that journey; and 3dly. of the manner in which he proposes to carry the plans of Government into execution. "The objects which Mr.
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