Lo! I will ensconce me behind the cairn, as behind a strong wall of defence." "He's but a coward body after a'," said Cuddie, who was himself by no means deficient in that sort of courage which consists in insensibility to danger; "he's but a daidling coward body.

He'll never fill Rumbleberry's bonnet .-- Odd! Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.

It was a great pity, puir man, he couldna cheat the woodie.

But they say he gaed singing and rejoicing till't, just as I wad gang to a bicker o' brose, supposing me hungry, as I stand a gude chance to be .-- Eh, sirs! yon's an awfu' sight, and yet ane canna keep their een aff frae it!" Accordingly, strong curiosity on the part of Morton and Cuddie, together with the heated enthusiasm of old Mause, detained them on the spot from which they could best hear and see the issue of the action, leaving to Kettledrummle to occupy alone his place of security.

The vicissitudes of combat, which we have already described, were witnessed by our spectators from the top of the eminence, but without their being able positively to determine to what they tended.