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Paint Scotland greeting ower her thrissle, Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whistle, And d n'd excisemen in a bustle, Seizing a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or lampit shell During the period of Mr. Bertram's active magistracy, he did not forget the affairs of the revenue.
'They are going to put 'em on Hinton's vault till they find the rest! said Lizzy hopelessly. The excisemen had, in fact, begun to pile up the tubs on a large stone slab which was fixed there; and when all were brought out from the tower, two or three of the men were left standing by them, the rest of the party again proceeding to the orchard.
"I know the rascal!" cried Lord Reginald; "it's that young Hargrave. Not the first time we have met tonight. You are one of the fellows who made their escape from the excisemen; but you are not going to do so from us; so yield at once! Come, help me, Voules!" and the young lord, spurring forward his horse, attempted to seize Dick by the shoulder.
They went on listening, as if they did not know of the singular incident which had happened to their faces, and the pressure of each to each rather increased than lessened with the lapse of time. They could hear the excisemen sniffing the air like hounds as they paced slowly along. When they reached the spot where the tub had burst, both stopped on the instant.
There we shall be in full view of the posts of the Preventive men. Having arrived there, you will appear to break from me after a struggle, and run as hard as you can towards the north in the direction of the excisemen. They will know you very well, having been your old cronies. You will have a white handkerchief in your hand which you will wave to them.
Paint Scotland greeting ower her thrissle, Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whistle, And d n'd excisemen in a bustle, Seizing a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or lampit shell During the period of Mr. Bertram's active magistracy, he did not forget the affairs of the revenue.
Again appointed an exciseman, he was stationed at Lewes in Sussex, where he wrote poetry and acquired some local celebrity as a writer. He was accordingly selected by his brother excisemen to prepare their petition to Government for an increase of pay, * the document which he drew up procuring him introductions to Goldsmith and Franklin, and dismissal from his post.
They were able to show a clean pair of heels not only to the excisemen but also to the King's enemies; as was proved by the Polperro captain who escaped from right under the nose of two French frigates during our last war with "that sweet enemy, France." Lansallos, one of the mother-parishes of Polperro, has a finely placed church, useful as a sea-mark.
It was in the year 1761 that the great smuggling trade corrupted the west coast. Tea was going like chaff, and brandy like well-water. There was nothing minded but the riding of cadgers by day and excisemen by night, and battles between the smugglers and the king's men, both by sea and land; continual drunkenness and debauchery, and our Session had an awful time o't.
The people who chiefly spoke against it, as she informed me, were soldiers disbanded upon pensions, the sextons of village churches, and excisemen.
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