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"The banks of Nith," remarked Helen, examining the pretty Scotch landscape with the air of a connoiseur. "Yes, I believe Jennie will like that," said Marguerite, taking the proffered sketch. "Like it? she will adore it! for if she be like me she will admire anything that is Scotch Scotch music oh, girls! is there anything on this earth more enchanting than a quaint old Scotch ballad?"
Before him flowed the Nith, over its blue pebbles, and through a thousand windings; beyond it were the woods and hills of Closeburn, all blooming and blushing in the setting beams of the sun, and rising up, tier above tier, till they terminated in the blue sky of the east.
"But gang she east, or gang she west, 'Twixt Nith and Tweed all over, While men have eyes, or ears, or taste, She'll always find a lover." During Irving's protracted stay in England he did not by any means lose his interest in his beloved New York and the little society that was always dear to him.
In particular, although the whole district suffered, it was in the vale of the Nith, and in the hilly portion of the parish of Closeburn, that the fury of Grierson, Dalzell, and Johnstone not to mention an occasional simoom, felt on the withering approach of Clavers with his lambs was felt to the full amount of merciless persecution and relentless cruelty.
I know, my ever dear friend, that you will be pleased with the news when I tell you I have at last taken a lease of a farm. Yesternight I completed a bargain with Mr. Miller, of Dalswinton, for the farm of Ellisland, on the banks of the Nith, between five and six miles above Dumfries.
And at length, after some five hours of stiff walking, we saw the brown Nith below us going down to meet the Solway, and so came to the entrance of Mr. Craik's place. The old porter recognized Paul by a mere shake of the head and the words, "Yere back, are ye?" and a lowering of his bushy white eyebrows.
In a more recent edition of the poet's life and writings where at length an effort is made to illustrate both, by documentary and other exact evidence the affair is set in such a light as to throw a ludicrous commentary on such testimony as the 'tradition of the land. It appears, from a letter of Burns in which two verses of the song are transcribed, that it was written before 16th October 1789; while it equally appears that Mr Nicol did not purchase Laggan till March 1790: ergo, the maut was not brewed at Laggan; Masterton did not cross the Nith; and the punch-bowl is a myth, which most likely originated in editorial fancy.
They existed from time immemorial, and were the work of that son of night and darkness the smuggler, who, in passing from the Brow at the mouth of the Nith, from Bombay, near Kirkcudbright, or from the estuary of the Cree, with untaxed goods from the Isle of Man then a separate and independent kingdom found it convenient to conceal both his goods and himself from the observation of the officers of excise.
That tune, "Cauld Kail," is such a favourite of yours, that I once more roved out yesterday for a gloamin-shot at the muses; when the muse that presides o'er the shores of Nith, or rather my old inspiring dearest nymph, Coila, whispered me the following.
"Nice, eh?" said Bonaparte, peeping round into his face, speaking with a lisp, as though to a very little child. "Nith, eh?" But the eyes were black and lustreless, and seemed not to see him. When he had given sixteen Bonaparte paused in his work to wipe a little drop of blood from his whip. "Cold, eh? What makes you shiver so? Perhaps you would like to pull up your shirt?
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