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taken a fancy to cut my throat; a pleasure which he once proposed to himself

upon some point of etiquette, not half so important, in his eyes, as this matter of boots or brogues, or whatever the calige shall finally be pronounced by the learned. But I must go to head-quarters, to prepare the Prince for this extraordinary scene. My information will be well taken, for it will give him a hearty laugh at present, and put him on his guard against laughing, when it might be very mal-a-propos. So, au revoir, my dear Waverley

THE first occupation of Waverley, after he departed from the Chieftain, was in quest of the officer whose life he had saved. He was guarded along with his come panions in misfortune, who were very nu merous, in a gentleman's house near the field of battle.

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BY BORG Vol 978 Upon entering the room, where they stood crowded together, Waverley easily recognized the object of his visit, not only by the peculiar dignity of his appearance, but by the appendage of Dugald Mahony, with his battle-axe, who had stuck to him from the moment of his captivity, as if he had been skewered to his side. This close attendance was, perhaps,

for the purpose of securing his promised reward from Edward, but it also operated: to save the English gentleman from being plundered in the scene of general confusion; for Dugald sagaciously argued, that the amount of the salvage which he might be allowed, would be regulated by the state of the prisoner, when he should deliver him over to Waverley. He hastened to assure Waverley, that he had “ keepit ta sidier roy haill, and that he was na a plack the waur since the fery moment when his honour forbad her to gie him a bit clamhewit wi' her Lochaber axe."

Waverley assured Dugald of a liberal recompence, and, approaching the English officer, expressed his anxiety to do any thing which might contribute to his convenience under his present unpleasant circumstances.

"I am not so inexperienced a soldier, sir," answered the Englishman, "as to complain of the fortune of war. I am only grieved to see those scenes acted in our

own island, which I have often witnessed elsewhere with comparative indiffer ence."

"Another such day as this," said Wa verley," and I trust the cause of your res grets will be removed, and all will agains return to peace and orders ablâ

The officer smiled and shook his head. "I must not forget my situation so far as to attempt a formal confutation of that opinion; but, notwithstanding your suc cess, and the valour which won it, you have undertaken a task to which your strengthi appears wholly inadequate.”

“Come, Edward, come along; the Prince has gone to Pinkie-house for the night and we must follow or lose the whole ces remony of the caliga. Your friend, the Baron, has been guilty of a great piece of cruelty; he has insisted upon dragging Baillie Macwheeble out to the field of battle. Now, you must know, the Baillie's

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greatest horror is an armed Highlander, or a loaded gun and there he stands lis tening to the Baron's instructions, con cerning the protest; and ducking his head, like ausea-gull, at the report of every gun and pistol that our idle boys are firing upo en the fields; and undergoes, by way of penance, at every symptom of flinching, a severe rebuke from his patron, who would not admit the discharge of a whole battes ry of cannon within point-blank distance, as an apology for neglecting a discourse, in which the honour of his family is interested." stoupabel V J

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ark But how has Mr Bradwardine got him to venture so far?"

Why he had come as far as Mussel burgh, fancy, in hopes of making some! of our wills; and the péremptory coms mands of the Baron dragged him forwards to Preston after the battle was over.noHa complains of one or two of our ragamuf fans having put him in peril of his life, by presenting their pieces at him; but as they