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the proverbial epicurism ot the English,—proverbial, that is to say, in Scotland at the period,—the English visitors made no figure whatever at the entertainment compared with the portentous voracity of Captain Dalgetty, although that gallant soldier had already displayed much steadiness and pertinacity in his attack upon the refreshment set be-