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Updated: August 27, 2026

Sae what's to come o' us I canna weel see I doubt I'll hae to tak the hills wi' the wild whigs, as they ca' them, and then it will be my lo to be shot down like a mawkin at some dikeside, or to be sent to heaven wi' a Saint Johnstone's tippit about my hause."

Sir Walter Scott - Old Mortality, Volume 1.

Sae what's to come o' us I canna weel see I doubt I'll hae to tak the hills wi' the wild whigs, as they ca' them, and then it will be my lo to be shot down like a mawkin at some dikeside, or to be sent to heaven wi' a Saint Johnstone's tippit about my hause."

Sir Walter Scott - Old Mortality, Complete