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Rh make your right effectual, I shall be most happy to supply."

"Nay, you may leave all that to me," said the counsellor; "'tis my vocation Hal, I shall make money of it."

"I'm sure it's no for the like o' me," observed Dinmont, "to speak to you gentle-folks; but if siller would help on the Captain's plea, and they say nae plea gangs on weel without it"

"Except on Saturday night," said Pleydell.

"Aye, but when your honour wadna take your fee you wadna hae the cause neither, sae I'll ne'er fash ye on a Saturday at e'en again—but I was saying there's some siller in this spleuchan that's like the Captain's ain, for we've aye counted it such, baith Ailie and me."

"No, no, Liddesdale—no occasion, no occasion whatever—keep thy cash to stock thy farm."

"To stock my farm? Mr. Pleydell, your honour kens mony things, but ye