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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Never heard of it," quoth Quill; "let's have it by all means. I'd like to hear what the duchess said to him." "It was na what the duchess said to him, but what he said to the duchess, ye ken. The way of it was this: My uncle Caimbogie was aye up at the castle, for besides his knowledge of liquor, there was nae his match for deer-stalking, or spearing a salmon, in those parts.
"'It's nae sae bad, my leddy, said my uncle; for ye see he was a man of few words, and never flattered onybody. "'Then you don't approve much of it? said the duchess. "'I've drank better, and I've drank waur, quo' he. "'I'm sorry you don't like it, Caimbogie, said the duchess, 'for it can never be popular now, we have such a dependence upon your taste.
"By my conscience, you're no small judge of spirits, wherever you learned it," said the major; "it's like Islay malt!" "I was aye reckoned a gude ane," said the doctor, "and my mither's brither Caimbogie had na his like in the north country. Ye may be heerd tell what he aince said to the Duchess of Argyle, when she sent for him to taste her claret."
Caimbogie, however, pe'd nae attention to them; but he eat his dinner, and drank his wine, and talked away about fallow and red deer, and at last the duchess, for she was aye fond o' him, addressed him frae the head o' the table: "'Cambogie, quoth she, 'I'd like to hae your opinion about that wine. It's some the duke has just received, and we should like to hear what you think of it.
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