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The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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Kissed the book.
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Tobacco-pouch.
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A kind of worsted gloves, used by the lower orders.
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i.e. Was able to do.
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i.e. The quieter.
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Avoid the gallows.
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[The notorious Mandrin was known as the Captain-General of French & smugglers. See a Tract on his exploits, printed 1753.]
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Note N. Doomster, or Dempster, of Court.
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Note O. John Duke of Argyle and Greenwich.
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Red John the warrior, a name personal and proper in the Highlands to John Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, as MacCummin was that of his race or dignity.
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[In 1828, the Author presented to the Roxburgh Club a curious volume containing the “Proceedings in the Court-Martial held upon John, Master of Sinclair, for the murder of Ensign Schaw, and Captain Schaw, 17th October 1708.”]
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Pass.
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Seal.
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Justice of Peace.
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The executioner, in livery of black or dark grey and silver, likened by low wit to a magpie.
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He meant, probably, stillicidium.
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By dint of assiduous research I am enabled to certiorate the reader, that the name of this person was Saunders Broadfoot, and that he dealt in the wholesome commodity called kirn-milk (Anglice’, butter-milk).– J. C.
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The fact is certain. The single epistle was addressed to the principal director of the British Linen Company.
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The last three days of March, old style, are called the Borrowing Days; for, as they are remarked to be unusually stormy, it is feigned that March had borrowed them from April, to extend the sphere of his rougher sway. The rhyme on the subject is quoted in the glossary to Leyden’s edition of the “Complaynt of Scotland”—
[March said to Aperill,
I see three hogs upon a hill,
A young sheep before it has lost its first fleece.
But when the borrowed days were gane
The three silly hogs came hirplin hame.]
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[John Emery, an eminent comedian, played successfully at Covent Garden Theatre between 1798 and 1820. Among his characters, were those of Dandie Dinmont in Guy Mannering, Dougal in Rob Roy, and Ratcliffe in the Heart of Mid-Lothian.]
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Concealed a knife.
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Lay ourselves down to sleep.
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A homely proverb, signifying better wed a neighbour than one fetched from a distance.—Mixen signifies dunghill.
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