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James Younger, a big ship-owner, was on the landing-place of Arbigland when some of the villagers caught sight of a small fishing yawl beating up against a stiff northeast squall, trying to gain the shelter of the little tidal-creek that formed the harbor of the town. Mr. Younger looked long at the boat and then shook his head. "I don't think she'll do it," he said dubiously.
"At the masthead was a flag I'd never seen, red and white with a blue field filled with stars in the corner. What country's flag is that?" Pearson thought for a moment. "There's no such flag," he said finally. "I know them all, and there's none like that. The rest of your dream may come true, but not that about the flag. Come, let's be walking back to Arbigland."
Miss Craig, in describing the efforts made by her father, William Craig, laird of Arbigland, in Kirkcudbright, says, "The indolent obstinacy of the lower class of the people was found to be almost unconquerable.
Burke's History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. i. p. 329. See Letters and Petitions in the State Papers, No. iii. p. 1716. See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 333. See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 334. I am indebted to the present Mr. Craik, of Arbigland, for this correspondence.
Time and time we met people plodding along, some of them nodding uncertainly, others abruptly taking the far side of the pike, and every encounter drove the poison deeper into his soul. But after we had travelled some way, up hill and down dale, he vouchsafed the intelligence that we were making for Arbigland, Mr.
The following correspondence which passed between the Earl of Nithisdale, popularly so called, and his friend, Mr. Craik, of Arbigland in Dumfriesshire, is a curious commentary upon the motives and reasons which actuated the minds of the Jacobites in the second attempt to re-establish the Stuart family. The first letter from Mr.
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