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"Ma word" and Kildrummie pursued his way "it'll be a match, the dochter o' a puir Hielant laird, wi' naethin' but his half pay and a few pounds frae a fairm or twa. She's a clever ane; French songs, dancin', shootin', ridin', actin', there's nae deevilry that's beyond her. They say upbye that she's been a bonnie handfu' tae her father General though he be an' a' peety her man."
I love my fellows, one and all, not offhand as the Catechism enjoins, but heartily, and I never saw the fellow, carl or king, who, if ordinary honest and cheerful, I could not lie heads and thraws with at a camp-fire. In matters of strict ritual, now, ha urn!" "Out with it, man!" I cried, laughing. "I'm like Parson Kilmalieu upbye. You've heard of him easy-going soul, and God sain him!
Kildrummie, still in search of agreeable themes to pass the time, mentioned a pleasant tale he had gathered at the seed shop. "Yir neebur upbye, the General's dochter, is cairryin' on an awfu' rig the noo at the Castle" Kildrummie fell into dialect in private life, often with much richness "an' the sough o' her ongaeins hes come the length o' Muirtown.
"Ma word" and Kildrummie pursued his way "it 'll be a match, the dochter o' a puir Hielant laird, wi' naethin' but his half pay and a few pounds frae a fairm or twa. She 's a clever ane; French songs, dancin', shootin', ridin', actin', there's nae deevilry that's beyond her. They say upbye that she's been a bonnie handfu' tae her father General though he be an' a' peety her man."
But his lordship, Justiciar-General, upbye, has sent his provost-marshal with letters of arrest to the place in vain. Now here's my story.
The carline, she sits in the neuk yonder, upbye, and cracks about the grand shooters and hunters lang syne Odd, I think they hae killed a' the deer in the country, for my part." "Well, Hobbie, I have shot a fat buck, and sent him to Earnscliff this morning you shall have half of him for your grandmother." "Mony thanks to ye, Mr. Patrick, ye're kend to a' the country for a kind heart.
When it came to the bit, he turned the holy-water font of Kilcatrine blue-stone upside-down, scooped a hole in the bottom, and used the new hollow for Protestant baptism. 'There's such a throng about heaven's gate, said he, 'that it's only a mercy to open two; and he was a good and humour-some Protestant-Papist till the day he went under the flagstones of his chapel upbye."
In that driving snow we rubbed him into life again, cruelly pallid, but with no broken bit about him. "Where's my stoup?" were his first words; "my poor lads upbye must be wearying for water." He looked pleased to see the same beside him where he had set it down, with its water untouched, and then he cast a wae glance on the dead man beside him. "Poor wretch, poor wretch!" said he.
"A more unfriendly man to the Laird of MacLachlan might be for hanging you on the gibbet at the town-head," said his lordship to the prisoners, spraying ink-sand idly on the clean page of a statute-book as he spoke; "but our three trees upbye are leased just now to other tenants, Badenoch hawks a trifle worse than yourselves, and more deserving."
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