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254, "whilk I wad judge from your tongue, I can play, 'Lingeram Cosh,' and 'Mullin Dhu,' and 'the Cummers of Athole.

"Take yourself away, friend; you interrupt our conversation."

"Or if, under your honour's favour, ye should happen to be a thought honest, I can play, (this in a low and confidential tone,) 'Killiecrankie,' and 'the King shall hae his ain,' and 'the Auld Stuarts back again,'—and the wife at the change-house is a decent discreet body, neither kens nor cares what toasts are drunken, and what tunes are played in her house—she's deaf to a' thing but the clink o' the siller."

The Marquis, who was sometimes suspected of jacobitism, could not help laughing as he threw the fellow a dollar, and bid him go play to the servants if he had a mind, and leave them at peace.

"Aweel, gentlemen," said he, "I am wishing your honours gude day—I'll be a' the better of the dollar, and ye'll be the