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Rh, who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase, "but how shall I get to the place as you call it?"

"Ye maun haud wessel by the end o' the loan, and take tent o' the jaw-hole."

"O, if you get to easel and wessel again, I am undone!—Is there nobody that could guide me to this place? I will pay him handsomely."

The word pay operated like magic. "Jock, ye villain," exclaimed the voice from the interior, "are ye lying routing there, and a young gentleman seeking the way to the Place? Get up, ye fause loon, and shew him the way down the meikle loaning.—He'll shew you the way, sir, and I'se warrant ye'll be weel put up; for they never turn awa' naebody frae the door; and ye'll be come in the canny moment I'm thinking, for the laird's servant—that's no to say his body-servant, but the helper like—rade express by this e'en to fetch the houdie, and he just staid the drinking o' twa pints o' tippeny, to tell us how my leddy was ta'en wi' her pains."