Traditional Tales of the English And Scottish Peasantry
Traditional Tales of the English And Scottish Peasantry
Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842
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So lie still there, and put thy bonnet on thy baJd scalp, from which whisky has scalded the hair. Ay, that will do. Now sit down, my wandering man of the mist, let me have a look at thee ; but first hold this cup of * stupefy ' to thy head. Faith^ my birkie, if I thought ye kenn'd the might of whisky by mathematical measuring, or any other dangerous government mode of ascertaining spiritual strength, I'd make ye swallow yere gauging sticks. So sit down ; else, by the spirit of malt and the hear...t of com, I will make thee obedient.' *^ I sat down on an empty cask, and holding in my hand a cup full of the hot and untaken-down liquor, which my entertainers were busied in preparing, I coald not but give a few hurried glances round Mm wretched lodge in the wilderness. The cabin itself seemed more the creation of distempered or intoxicated intellects, than the work of consideration and sobriety. At the entrance of a kind of cavern in the rock, a rude enclosure of stone was raised, the whole covered over with boughs, and turf, with an opening in the side capable of admit- ting one person at a time.
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