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See Sharpe's Letters, vol. i. pp. 303-5, and Ingram's Haunted Homes, Lond. 1884, vol. i. pp. 1-4. Redgauntlet, ch. xii. Pate-in-Peril at Dumfries. SCOTT'S Swift, vol. ix. p. 457. Amelia, Bk. 1. cap. xi. Sheridan's Play, Act II. Sc. 1. William Simson, R.S.A., landscape painter. He died in London, 1847. April 1. The proofs are not to be found. Then he writes letters and expects answers.
Silvertongue would consider as the last of degradations, Alan Fairford took leave of the old Jacobite, Pate-in-Peril, and set forward on the road to the loyal burgh of Annan. His reflections during his ride were none of the most pleasant.
Ha, Pate-in-Peril, how is it with you? and you, too, Ingoldsby I must not call you by any other name why do you receive an old friend so coldly? But you guess my errand. 'And are prepared for it, general, said Redgauntlet; 'we are not men to be penned up like sheep for the slaughter. 'Pshaw! you take it too seriously let me speak but one word with you.
I gave him a wipe about that, if you noticed; I can say anything to Pate-in-Peril Indeed, he is my wife's near kinsman. 'But your advice, provost, said Alan, who perceived that, like a shy horse, the worthy magistrate always started off from his own purpose just when he seemed approaching to it. 'Weel, you shall have it in plain terms, for I am a plain man.
Such and such-like compliments he dealt around, which were in general answered by silent bows; but when he saluted one of his own countrymen by the name of MacKellar, and greeted Maxwell of Summertrees by that of Pate-in-Peril, the latter replied, 'that if Pate were not a fool, he would be Pate-in-Safety; and the former, a thin old gentle-man, in tarnished embroidery, said bluntly, 'Aye, troth, Redgauntlet, I am here just like yourself; I have little to lose they that took my land the last time, may take my life this; and that is all I care about it.
'Well, I see you have got some grog aboard. 'It is not my custom, Mr. Ewart, said the old gentleman, 'as you well know, to become a chamberer or carouser thus late on Saturday at e'en; but I wanted to recommend to your attention a young friend of ours, that is going upon a something particular journey, with a letter to our friend the Laird from Pate-in-Peril, as they call him.
Pate Maxwell will still be the auld man always Pate-in-Peril Craig-in-Peril, for what I know. Let me see the letter from him. He examined it with much care, turning it up and down, and looking at the seal very attentively. 'All's right, I see; it has the private mark for haste and speed.
'In troth, and ye may say sae, madam, answered the laird; 'for poor Harry Redgauntlet, that suffered at Carlisle, was hand and glove with me; and yet we parted on short leave-taking. 'Aye, Summertrees, said the provost; 'that was when you played Cheat-the-woodie, and gat the by-name of Pate-in-Peril. I wish you would tell the story to my young friend here.
'Why, then, it follows, that if I am to help you at this pinch, if cannot be by and through my ain personal knowledge, but through some fitting agent or third person. 'Granted again, said Fairford. 'And pray who may this third person be? 'Wha but Pate Maxwell of Summertrees him they call Pate-in-Peril. 'An old Forty-five man, of course? said Fairford.
If Fate can bring him to a communing, the business is done. He's a sharp chield, Pate-in-Peril. 'Pate-in-Peril! repeated Alan; 'a very singular name. 'Aye, and it was in as queer a way he got it; but I'll say naething about that, said the provost, 'for fear of forestalling his market; for ye are sure to hear it once at least, however oftener, before the punch-bowl gives place to the teapot.
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