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"Remember your liberties," he exclaimed; "confound cess, press, and presbytery, and the memory of old Willie that first brought them upon us!" "Damn the gauger!" echoed old John Rewcastle; "I'll cleave him wi' my ain hand." "And confound the country-keeper and the constable!" re-echoed Westburnflat; "I'll weize a brace of balls through them before morning."
This was touching a theme which found a responsive chord in the bosom of every man present. "Our commerce is destroyed," hollowed old John Rewcastle, a Jedburgh smuggler, from the lower end of the table. "Our agriculture is ruined," said the Laird of Broken-girth-flow, a territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and whortle-berries.
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