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 fight that had anco little will till't! There was he and that sour whigamore they ca'd Burley—if twa men could has won a field, we wadna has gotten our skins paid that day."

"You mention Burley—Do you know if he yet lives?"

"I kenna muckle about him. Folk say he was abroad, and our sufferers wad hold no communion wi' him, because o' his having murdered the archbishop. Sae he cam hame ten times dourer than ever, and broke aff wi' mony of the Presbyterians; and, at this last incoming of the Prince of Orange, he could get nae countenance nor command for fear of his devilish temper, and he hasna been heard of since; only some folks say, that pride and anger hae driven him clean wud."

"And—and," said the traveller, after considerable hesitation,—"do you know any thing of Lord Evandale?"

"Div I ken ony thing o' Lord Evan-