"Lord help the lad, his head has been wool-gathering! I thought how it would be when the womankind were admitted no getting a word of sense out of a young fellow for six hours after. Why, man, there was once a people called the Piks" "More properly Picts," interrupted the Baronet. "I say the Pikar, Pihar, Piochtar, Piaghter, or Peughtar," vociferated Oldbuck; "they spoke a Gothic dialect"

"Lord help the lad, his head has been wool-gathering! I thought how it would be when the womankind were admitted no getting a word of sense out of a young fellow for six hours after. Why, man, there was once a people called the Piks" "More properly Picts," interrupted the Baronet. "I say the Pikar, Pihar, Piochtar, Piaghter, or Peughtar," vociferated Oldbuck; "they spoke a Gothic dialect"