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To this sanctified person Waverley addressed his request, that he would procure him a guide, with a saddle-horse to carry his portmanteau to Edinburgh.

"And whare may ye be coming frae?" demanded mine host of the Candlestick? "I have told you where I wish to go: torblo. I do not conceive any further information necessary either for the guide or his saddle-horse."

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"Hem! Ahem!" returned he of the Candlestick, somewhat disconcerted at this rebuff. "It's the general fast, sir, and I cannot enter into ony carnal transactions on sic a day, when the people should be humbled, and the backsliders should return, as worthy Mr Goukthrapple said; and moreover when, as the precious Mr Jabesh Rentowel did weel observe, the land was mourning for covenants burnt, broken, and buried.". HRV ILGGA

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whether negative or acquiescent, Edward could not well distinguish, The hostess, a civil, quiet, laborious drudge, came to take his orders for dinner, but declined to make answer upon the subject of the horse and guide, for the Salique law, it it seems, extended to the stables of the Golden Candlestick.

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From a window which overlooked the dark and narrow court in which Callum Beg dressed the horses after their journey, Waverley heard the following dialogue betwixt the subtle foot-page of Vich Jan Vohr and his landlord.

"Ye'll be frae the north, young man ?" began the latter.,

"And ye may say that," answered Callum.

"And ye'll hae ridden a lang way, the day, it may weel be?" 3 mɔo“ ybod 1609 "Sae lang that I could weel tak a

"Gudewife, bring the gill stoup."

Here some compliments passed fitting

the occasion, when my host of the Golden Candlestick, having, as he thought, openell his guest's heart by this hospitable pro"pitiation, resumed his scrutiny, ad odal 98 Yell no hae mickle better whisky than that aboon the pass

annae frae aboon the pass.” 114 "Ye're a Highlandman by your tongue?" Na, I am but just Aberdeen-a-way." maAnd did your master come from Aberdeen wi' you?ll ennui sit bosch gså Ay that's when I left it mysel," answered the cool and impenetrable Callum Beg. i did be lo7

And what kind of a gentleman is he?" "I believe he is ane o' King George's state officers; at least he's aye for gan ganging on to the south, and he has a hantle silver, and never grudges ony thing till a poor body, or in the way of lawing."\

"He wants a guide and a horse frae this to Edinburgh?"

"Ay, and ye maun find it him forthwith." "Ahem! It will be chargeable."

He cares na for that a boddie."

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This last undaunted parry altogether foiled Mr Cruickshanks, who, though not quite satisfied either with the reserve of the master, or the extreme readiness of the man, was contented to lay a tax upon the reckoning and horsehire, that might compound for his ungratified curiosity, The circumstance of its being the fast-day was not forgotten in the charge, which, upon the whole, did not, however, amount

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Callum Beg soon after announced in in person the ratification of this treaty, adding, "Ta auld devil was ganging to ride wi the Duinhe-wassal hersel."

“That will not be very pleasant, Callum, nor altogether safe, for our host seems a person of great curiosity; but a travel