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"But how do you know that you have not already shot the king of the geese?" said La Salle, anxious to investigate the peculiar monomania of this poor lunatic; for such, indeed, he evidently was. "Why, mon," said he, evidently surprised at the absurdity of the question, "by his croun, of course.

"It was neither scarlet nor sky-blue, but my ain auld brown threshie-coat of a short-gown, and my mother's auld mutch, and my red rokelay and he gied me a croun and a kiss for the use o' them, blessing on his bonny face though it's been a dear ane to me." "And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie?" said Sharpitlaw, in his most conciliatory manner.

"It was neither scarlet nor sky-blue, but my ain auld brown threshie-coat of a short-gown, and my mother's auld mutch, and my red rokelay and he gied me a croun and a kiss for the use o' them, blessing on his bonny face though it's been a dear ane to me." "And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie?" said Sharpitlaw, in his most conciliatory manner.

David I, that "sair sanct to the croun," who succeeded in 1124, founded the Bishoprics of Ross and of Caithness in 1128 or 1130, and of Aberdeen in 1137, and endowed them with lands.

The king has ae braw croun o' white an black fedders, an' I'se reckon ye's never seen a guse like that ava' hae ye now?" he asked, anxiously. "I have never seen any such bird," said La Salle; "but why do you care so much about shooting this rare bird?" "Weel, I'll tell ye, sin ye were kin' till me, an' did na keep the guse fra' me.

Then, laddie, ye wull hae earned yoursel' th' penny-fee for whilk ye hae perilled your saul. "'But, said she, 'my ain bairn, when ye hae won the croun, use it na' at all, though a' the fiends fra' hell tempted ye, but carry it to the kirkyard at mirk midnight; an' when ye hae cannily lichted a bit bleeze, burn the king's croun, an' say wha' I shall tell ye.

'It was th' auld enemy that ye forgathered wi' on th' ice, an' ye are his until ye can kill th' king o' th' geese; an' then ye ken whaever carries his croun o' black an' white feathers can unnerstand th' language o' all fowl, an', wha' is more, call them to himsel', sae that he canna' fail to hae his wull o' them.