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Yet I was in such case that, though by custom I drink little, the great draught touched not my brain, and did but give me heart. "You might challenge at skinking that great Danish knight who was with us under Orleans, Sir Andrew Haggard was his name, and his bearings were . . . " So he was running on, for he himself had drunk more than his share, when I brought him back to my matter.
'Well, well, said he, a little sobered, 'it must be as you wish, though you would hardly speak otherwise if you had committed homicide! Mine is the loss. I must eat alone; a very pernicious thing for a person of my habit of body, content myself with a pint of skinking claret, and meditate the discourse.
"Well, well," said he, a little sobered, "it must be as you wish, though you would hardly speak otherwise if you had committed homicide! Mine is the loss. I must eat alone; a very pernicious thing for a person of my habit of body, content myself with a pint of skinking claret, and meditate the discourse.
We cannot all love Haggis, nor 'painch, tripe, and thairm, and all those rural dainties which you celebrate as 'warm-reekin, rich! 'Rather too rich, as the Young Lady said on an occasion recorded by Sam Weller. Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer, Gie her a Haggis!
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