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This yer Allan McLane, Aunt Vesty says, is dreffle snifflin' an' severe. I think it's a conspliracy to steal Virgie when they's all away. Misc Somers would take keer of her, but I'm afraid she'd tell somebody." "Are you sure that you saw and heard truly?" the minister said to Virgie. "Oh, yes. I saw the same man at Mr. Milburn's the day he was taken sick.
Maclean Clephane of Torloisk. "Little Walter," Thomas Scott's son, who went to India in 1826, ante, vol. i. p. 103. He became a General in the Indian Army, and died in 1873. Æneid VI. 617. Emanuel de Fellenburg, who died in 1844. "The History of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Middle of the Ninth Century," by the Rev. Alex. Low. 8vo, Edinburgh, 1826. See Misc.
The missionary had converted of 'em, and they didn't eat no more; but he tuld how they used to eat people; and they stouled a pony outen the stables an' run to the Cypress swamp, and thar they turned out to be some shingle sawyers he'd just a stained up. Misc Somers is a-waitin' for him. Lord sakes! she don't keer." "And so you were an orphan, brought up at the old roadside stage-house at Newark?
John Swanston, a forester at Abbotsford, who did all he could to replace Tom Purdie. Life, vol. x. p. 66. Dr. Ferguson, Sir Adam's father, died in 1816. See Misc. Prose Works, vol. xix. pp. 331-33. See Measure for Measure, Act II. Sc. 1. Æneid v. 194-7: thus rendered in English by Professor Conington:
Currie's Burns, vol. ii. p. 290. See Quart. Rev., Nov. 1829, or Misc. Prose Works, xxi. 152-198. George Dempster of Skibo, one of the few men connecting Scott with this generation, died in Edinburgh on the 6th of February 1889.
"Misc Somers says you held one of them babies, Jedge, to let its mother shout, and pretended to be under a conviction; an' that you backslid right thar and was a-whisperin' to the other mother. Lord sakes! Misc Somers finds it all out." "Well," said the Judge, finding the laugh against him, "I never did better electioneering than that day.
Boswell seems to imply that he showed Johnson, or at least read to him, a portion of his journal. Most of his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides had been read by him. Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 18, and Oct. 26. He was as brilliant as himself, and as good-humoured as any one else. He was, perhaps, more steadily under Johnson than under any else. Gibbon calls Johnson Reynolds's oracle. Gibbon's Misc.
"William," said Vesta, "come around this afternoon, and let us have our usual Sunday reading-circle. Mr. Milburn will be awake and appreciate it, as he is one of your most regular parishioners. Rhoda, you can read?" "Oh, yes'm. Misc Somers, she's a good reader. She reads the Old Testamins. The names thar is mos' too long for me, but I reads the Psalms an' the Ploverbs right well."
The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter, reviewed in the Quarterly, Oct. 1827. See also "On Planting Waste Lands," in Misc. Prose Works, vol. xxi. pp. 1-76. Daughter of Mrs. Maclean Clephane, and afterwards Marchioness of Northampton. Scott's indorsation of this letter is characteristic "Prodigious, bold request, Tom Thumb."
By holding that baby five minutes I made a vote, and the mother will hold it twenty years before she will make a vote." "Misc Somers says, Jedge, you hold the women longer than thar babies; but I told her you was in sech conviction you didn't know one from the other. 'Oh, she says, 'he's sly and safe when he gits over yer on the Worcester side. Misc Somers, she's dreadful plain."
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