This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ..."To Culross in a cart I" shrieked Mrs. Jamieson. "I winna stir from this house till ye bring him back again." Mr. Keay's patience was now exhausted, and the more especially when he heard shouts of merriment from the dining-room. "If you don't speedily take yourself off, you will be turned out. Better, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ..."To Culross in a cart I" shrieked Mrs. Jamieson. "I winna stir from this house till ye bring him back again." Mr. Keay's patience was now exhausted, and the more especially when he heard shouts of merriment from the dining-room. "If you don't speedily take yourself off, you will be turned out. Better, therefore, take the half-crown, and trust me there will no harm happen to your son to-night;" saying which, he returned into the dining-room, and shut the door upon the distressed mother. By the time the gentlemen joined the ladies in the drawing-room, a hole had been drilled through each of the halfcrowns, and they were suspended round the neck of their new proprietor. Some months afterwards I happened to go with some strangers to see the new jail in Edinburgh. The prisoners were amusing themselves in their airing-ground. "That," said the jailer, pointing to a young man, "is the most hardened and incorrigible offender we have." I inquired his name, and he said it was John Murray. Fbom Tulliallan we removed to Eaith, aaaiflj. to bring in the New Year. A very brilliant party was assembled. The gentlemen enjoyed the pleasures of the battue in the mornings, and we sat down to dinner upwards of twenty every day. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, Sir Ronald and Miss Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ferguson (now Sir Henry and Lady Davie), Mr. and Mrs. Michael Angelo Taylor, Lord Gillies and Mrs. Gillies, Mr. and Mrs. Russell, the Marquis of Tweeddale and his brothers Lords John and Thomas Hay, Lord Maitland, the present Lord Lauderdale, and the Honourable Captain Maitland, Count Flahault, Lord Duncan (the present Lord Camperdown), Mr. John Murray, and though last, not least, the Honourable John...
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