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This was a catch-phrase in society at the time of the trial. Some one recited from a number of Hood's Comic Annual the following poem by Tom Hood: "Yestreen, when I retired to bed, I had a funny dream; Imagination backward sped Up History's ancient stream. A falconer in fullest dress Was teaching me his art; Of tercel, eyas, hood, and jess, The terms I learnt by heart.
"Weel, that's just most amazing!" exclaimed Flett, dipping his hand into the dish and bringing forth another steaming potato. "For our lad, Jack, has taken a strange misliking to the Falcon, and run away to a bigger ship. "Jerry," he asked, turning to the seaman, "did ye hear onything o' young Jack this mornin'?" "Ay," said Jerry. "He sailed yestreen in the Foaming Wave, the lazy rascal."
"It's me, Halcro Ericson. Open the door, Jack." "Save us all!" he exclaimed, raising the bolt. "What brings ye out on a night like this, lad? Come inside." "No; I'm seeking for Thora Kinlay; d'ye ken anything about her; she's lost!" "Lost! No; I ken nothing o' her. But wait and I'll see the bairns." He returned to the door in a few minutes. "Hilda says that Thora was here yestreen," he said.
Linklater arrived sooner than Paterson expected him, and after a careful examination of the body he stated that Lothian had been dead several hours, and that his death was the result of foul play. The man had, in fact, been murdered. "I'm real sorry to hear this, sir," said Flett to the bailie. "It was only yestreen I was speakin' wi' poor Colin at the inn.
"`No, says she; `it's yestreen she left with her husband and baby, to join the regiment that's going out to Ingy. "`Yesterday she left? says I, starting up. "`Yes, replies she, `and what do you care about them? "`It's very much I care, replied I, `for a little bird has whispered a secret to me. "`And what may that be? says she.
"Ay, ay, just another minute, Jimmy," said Flett. Then turning to me again, he continued: "Weel, I'm just away up to Dominie Drever's. The dominie was aboard the Falcon just before the Clasper came in yestreen, and I saw him again after ye were brought here. He was up at Lyndardy this mornin' seeing your mother for information about all your movements these two days past.
"They came yestreen from London town by Oxford way to play in Stratford and at Coventry, and are at the Swan Inn with Master Geoffrey Inchbold oh, ever so many of them, in scarlet jerkins, and cloth of gold, and doublets of silk laced up like any lord! It is a very good company, they say." Mistress Attwood looked quickly at her husband. "What will they play?" she asked.
'But I got a postcard yestreen sayin' that the new Road Surveyor would be round the day. He'll come and he'll no find me, or else he'll find me fou, and either way I'm a done man. I'll awa' back to my bed and say I'm no weel, but I doot that'll no help me, for they ken my kind o' no-weel-ness. Then I had an inspiration. 'Does the new Surveyor know you? I asked. 'No him.
Ye are a bonny young leddy, and a gude ane, and maybe a weel-tochered ane but dinna ye sneer awa the lad Lovel, as ye did a while sinsyne on the walk beneath the Briery-bank, when I saw ye baith, and heard ye too, though ye saw nae me. Be canny wi' the lad, for he loes ye weel, and it's to him, and no to anything I could have done for you, that Sir Arthur and you wan ower yestreen."
We had all the feelings appropriate to nearness to it, but we couldn't see it. Before we came abreast of it night had settled down, and there was around us only a gray and melancholy waste of salt water. To be sure it was a lovely night, with a young moon in its sky, "I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arms,"
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