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"Ha ha!" cried Cockburn, laughing, and glad to get rid of the original topic. "Don't you know, Maudge, that my grandsire was a dabbler in prophetic visions; and, think ye, he would have been fool enough to plant and water, as he is said to have done, his descendant's wuddy? But I have a good mind to cut down the tree, and make Lailoken's prophecy a physical impossibility."
If there's nae buck on Traquair when your Lordship has company at the castle, you hae only to gie Christie's Will a nod, and there will be nae want o' venison here for a month. Is sic a man a meet burden for a fir wuddy, my Lord?" "By my faith, your husband hath good properties about him," replied Traquair.
There is both pluck and a spirit o' contradiction in the callant, and I wouldna be in the least surprised if he preferred the wuddy. I ken, had I been in his place, what my choice would hae been." "I daresay, Sir Gideon," replied the old lady, who was jocose at the idea of seeing one of her daughters wed, "I daresay I could guess what that choice would hae been."
Among those wuddy worthies he fell in with his ancient adversary Winterton, who, instead of harbouring any resentment for the trick he played him in the Lord Boyd's castle, was rejoiced to see him again: he himself was then in the service of David Rizzio, the fiddler, whom the Queen some short time before had taken into her particular service.
Again the prison-door was opened, and Sir Gideon, with wrath upon his brow, stood before them. "Weel, youngster," said he, addressing the laird, "yer hour is come. What is yer choice a wife or the wuddy?" "Lead me to execution, ye auld knave," answered the laird, scornfully; "an' ken, that wi' the hemp around my neck, in contempt o' you an' yours, I will spit upon the ground where ye tread."
Mr Hickery, I could discern, was rather surprised; but I found that I had thus got the thief in the wuddy, and he had no choice; so both he and Mr Plan rose from their seats in a very sheepish manner, and looking at us as if they had unpleasant ideas in their minds, they departed forth the council-chamber; and a minute was made by the town-clerk that they, having resigned their trust as councillors, two other gentlemen at the next meeting should be chosen into their stead.
Sir Gideon evidently felt the rebuke, and, withdrawing from the apartment, said, as he departed "Remember that when the sun-dial shall to-morrow note the hour of twelve, so surely shall ye be brought forth and a wife shall be your lot, or the wuddy your doom." "Leave me!" cried the youth impatiently, "and the gallows be it my choice is made. Till my last hour trouble me not again."
"Simon! are you afraid to die?" cried the captive laird, in a tone of rebuke. "No, your honour," said Simon "that is, I am no more afraid to die than other men are, or ought to be but only ye'll observe, sir, that I have no ambition not, as I may say, to draw my last breath upon a wuddy, but to have it very unnaturally stopped.
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