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But as the quaigh was active, and the whisky went its frequent round, the circle became more lively; until at last, to my utter astonishment, the bagpipes were introduced; and after a coronach or so just to quiet the spirit of their departed host up started a couple of dancers, and began jigging it over the floor with all the grace and agility peculiar to my Hebridean friends.
I once got a hansel out of a witch's quaigh myself auld Marion Mathers, of Dustiefoot, whom they tried to bury in the old kirkyard of Dunscore; but the cummer raise as fast as they laid her down, and naewhere else would she lie but in the bonnie green kirkyard of Kier, among douce and sponsible fowk.
He decanted about one-half of a quart bottle of claret into a wooden quaigh or bicker, and took it off at a draught. "You did your good wine injustice, my friend; it's better than your brandy, though that's good too. Will you pledge me to the king's health?" "With pleasure," said Milnwood, "in ale, but I never drink claret, and keep only a very little for some honoured friends."
The sober Sandy gave a rollicking Scotch drinking-song that seemed to show the very bead on the liquor, "Hey the browst, and hey the quaigh!". The officers' cook, a quaint old African, seated cross-legged on the ground, on the outskirts of the crowd, piped up at the commandant's bidding, and half sang, half recited, in a wide, deep, musical voice, and an unheard-of language that excited great interest for a time; but interpreting certain manifestations of applause among the soldiers as guying, he took himself and his ear-rings and a gay kerchief, which he wore, to the intense delight of the garrison, as a belt around the waistband of his knee-breeches, to his kitchen, replying with cavalier insubordination, pioneer of the domestic manners of these days, to Captain Stuart's remonstrances by the assertion that he had to wash his kettle.
I once got a hansel out of a witch's quaigh myself, auld Marion Mathers, of Dustiefoot, whom they tried to bury in the old kirkyard of Dunscore, but the cummer raise as fast as they laid her down, and naewhere else would she lie but in the bonnie green kirkyard of Kier, among douce and sponsible fowk.
The wind, which is very high up in our hills of Judea, though, I suppose, down in the Philistine flats of B. parish it is nothing to speak of, has produced the same effects on the contents of my knowledge-box that a quaigh of usquebaugh does upon those of most other bipeds. I see everything couleur de rose, and am strongly inclined to dance a jig, if I knew how.
Having quaffed full many a quaigh of toddy, he insisted on delivering, it on the table, a proposition with which his auditors immediately closed. The orator appeared, the great man of the night, who was to answer everybody on both sides.
"It were better not to part," said his mother, watching him as he quaffed the liquor, of which he would have held it ominous to have left a drop. "And now," she said, muttering the words to herself, "go if thou canst go." "Mother," said Hamish, as he replaced on the table the empty quaigh, "thy drink is pleasant to the taste, but it takes away the strength which it ought to give."
He decanted about one-half of a quart bottle of claret into a wooden quaigh or bicker, and took it off at a draught. "You did your good wine injustice, my friend; it's better than your brandy, though that's good too. Will you pledge me to the king's health?" "With pleasure," said Milnwood, "in ale, but I never drink claret, and keep only a very little for some honoured friends."
To counterbalance those foreign sentinels, there mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; a jug, namely, of double ale, which held a Scotch pint, and a quaigh, or bicker, of ivory and ebony, hooped with silver, the work of John Girder's own hands, and the pride of his heart.
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