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I tell'd the folk at the Change, where I put up Dumple, to send ower my supper here, and the chield Mac-Guffog is agreeable to let it in; I hae settled a' that. And now let's hear your story. Whisht, Wasp, man! wow, but he's glad to see you, poor thing!
Except in a few poems and a few dry indications purposely misleading as to date, Burns himself made no reference to this passage of his life; it was an adventure of which, for I think sufficient reasons, he desired to bury the details. Of one thing we may be glad: in after years he visited the poor girl's mother, and left her with the impression that he was "a real warm-hearted chield."
"Send my clerk here directly; ye'll find him copying the survey of the estate in the little green parlour. Set things to rights in my study, and wheel the great leathem chair up to the writing-table set a stool for Mr. Scrow. Now, Mac-Guffog, where did ye find this chield?"
Aweel, they had me up in the grey o' the morning, and I behoved to whig awa wi' them, reason or nane, to a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes; and there this chield, Gabriel Kettledrummle, was blasting awa to them on the hill-side, about lifting up their testimony, nae doubt, and ganging down to the battle of Roman Gilead, or some sic place.
"Aggie," said Cosmo, as soon as there was no one within hearing, "I dinna like that chield hingin' aboot ye glowerin' at ye as gien he wad ate ye." "He winna du that, Cosmo; he's ceevil eneuch." "Ye sud hae seen sae rouch as he was to Grizzie!" "Grizzie's some rouch hersel' whiles," remarked Aggie quietly. "That's ower true," assented Cosmo; "but a man sud never behave like that til a wuman."
He was a daring chield, and he fought his ship till she blew up like peelings of ingans; and Frank Kennedy, he had been the first man to board, and he was flung like a quarter of a mile off, and fell into the water below the rock at Warroch Point, that they ca' the Gauger's Loup to this day. 'And Mr. Bertram's child, said the stranger, 'what is all this to him?
They should have called the chield Monypennies, though I sall warrant you English think we have not such a name in Scotland." "It is an ancient and honourable stock, the Monypennies," said Sir Mungo Malagrowther; "the only loss is, there are sae few of the name."
My gudesire's hair stood on end at this proposal, but he thought his companion might be some humoursome chield that was trying to frighten him, and might end with lending him the money. Besides, he was bauld wi' brandy, and desperate wi' distress; and he said he had courage to go to the gate of hell, and a step farther, for that receipt. The stranger laughed.
"I dinna ken, sir," said Ratcliffe; "I hae spoken to this Effie she's strange to this place and to its ways, and to a' our ways, Mr. Sharpitlaw; and she greets, the silly tawpie, and she's breaking her heart already about this wild chield; and were she the mean's o' taking him, she wad break it outright."
'Aweel, said the postilion, 'it might be sae, I canna say against it, for I was not in the country at the time; but John Wilson was a blustering kind of chield, without the heart of a sprug. 'And what was the end of all this? said the stranger, with some impatience.
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