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He sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Was it a dwam?" he inquired. "I get them whiles." "It was a dwam, but I think it has passed." He still rubbed his eyes, and peered about him, like a big collie dog that has lost its master. "Who is it that speirs?" he said. "I ken the voice, but I havena heard it this long time." "One who is well acquaint with Borrowstoneness and the links of Forth," said I.
He cursed the man Charles Stuart, and every councillor by name; he cursed the Persecutors, from his Highness of York down to one Welch of Borrowstoneness, who had been the means of his first imprisonment; he cursed the indulged and tolerated ministers; and he cursed every man of the hill-folk whose name he could remember.
The nameless general in the hills was Muckle John Gib, once a mariner of Borrowstoneness, and some time leader of the Sweet-Singers. I felt the smell of wet heather, and the fishy odours of the Forth; I heard the tang of our country speech, and the swirl of the gusty winds of home. But in a second all thought of mirth was gone, and a deep solemnity fell upon me.
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