The Scott Originals An Account of Notables Worthies the Originals of Charact
The Scott Originals An Account of Notables Worthies the Originals of Charact
W S William Shillinglaw Crockett
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. . ' " ' Chafron ! ' exclaimed the Antiquary, 'the word's worth a dollar, ' — and down it went in his red book. " It was quite in keeping with Scott's character that he should poke fun at Monkbarns's foibles, and the ludicrous mistakes into which he fell (as at the Kaim of Kinprunes) — those occasional " mares'-nests into which a passion for antiquities may betray even the acutest of amateurs ": " Monkbarns is no that owre wise himsell, in some things : he wad believe a bodle to be an auld Rom...an coin, as he ca's it, or a ditch to be a camp, upon ony leasing that idle folk made about it. I hae garr'd him trow mony a queer tale my- sell, Gude forgie me, " says Edie Ochiltree, admitting that in life's ordinary affairs Oldbuck's wisdom could not be called in question. CHAPTER EIGHT THE ANTIQUARY EDIE OCHILTREE O heard ye o' the bauld blue-gown, Auld Edie Ochiltree ? Weel kent in ilka country town, Auld Edie Ochiltree ; When beggars o' the gangrel corps Are driven frae the hallan door, The gudewife cries, ' Come ye in owre, Auld Edie Ochiltree.
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