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 young leddy—and he bade me fling doun my kent, and sae me and my mother yielded oursels prisoners.—I'm thinking we wad hae been letten slip awa', but Kettledrummle was ta'en near us, for Andrew Wilson's naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa', the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up.—Aweel, when my mother and him forgathered, they set till the sodgers, and I think they gae them their kale through the reek! Bastards o' the whore of Babylon was the best words in their wame. Sae then the kiln was in a bleeze again, and they brought us. a' three on wi' them to mak us an example, as they ca't."

"It is most infamous and intolerable oppression," said Morton, half speaking to himself; "here is a poor peaceable fellow, whose only motive for joining the conventicle was a sense of filial piety, and he is chained up like a thief or murderer, and likely to die the death of one, but without