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On he rode, little caring where. It was a dark night turned, and the trees made it yet darker, and he let the beast take its ain road through the wood; when all of a sudden, from tired and wearied that it was before, the nag began to spring and flee and stend, that my gudesire could hardly keep the saddle.
So my gudesire, to ease his ain heart, mair than from any hope of help, told him the story from beginning to end. "It's a hard pinch," said the stranger; "but I think I can help you." "If you could lend me the money, sir, and take a lang day I ken nae other help on earth," said my gudesire. "But there may be some under the earth," said the stranger.
So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; and there was as much singing of profane sangs, and birling of red wine, and speaking blasphemy and sculduddry, as had ever been in Redgauntlet Castle when it was at the blithest.
But he gave my gudesire a nudge as he offered them; and looking secretly and closely, Steenie saw that the chanter was of steel, and heated to a white heat; so he had fair warning not to trust his fingers with it. So he excused himsell again, and said he was faint and frightened, and had not wind aneugh to fill the bag.
There dwelt my gudesire, Steenie Steenson, a rambling, rattling chiel' he had been in his young days, and could play weel on the pipes; he was famous at 'Hoopers and Girders' a' Cumberland couldna, touch him at 'Jockie Lattin' and he had the finest finger for the back-lilt between Berwick and Carlisle.
But this that I am going to tell you was a thing that befell in our ain house in my father's time that is, my father was then a hafflins callant; and I tell it to you, that it may be a lesson to you that are but a young thoughtless chap, wha ye draw up wi' on a lonely road; for muckle was the dool and care that came o' 't to my gudesire."
And Sir John, when he had riped the turret weel, led my gudesire into the dining-parlour, and took him by the hand, and spoke kindly to him, and said he was sorry he should have doubted his word, and that he would hereafter be a good master to him, to make amends.
"Hoots! my mither's sister's daughter was her nurse," said he. "Helen Raeburn they ca' her, and her man's ane o' the Macdonalds. Trust me, but I ha'e heard monie a tale o' thae Drummonds, their faither and mither and their gudesire and minnie an' a'." "What is Angus like, Sam?" said I. "Atweel, he's a bonnie laddie; but no just " Sam stopped short and pulled a face.
'In HELL, if you will have my thoughts of it, said my gudesire, driven to extremity, 'in hell! with your father, his jackanape, and his silver whistle.
But Heaven kens the truth, whilk first came out by the minister's wife, after Sir John and her ain gudeman were baith in the moulds. And then my gudesire, wha was failed in his limbs, but not in his judgment or memory, at least nothing to speak of, was obliged to tell the real narrative to his freends, for the credit of his good name. He might else have been charged for a warlock.
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