D---it, instead of doing anything there, we were done! The veriest urchin that ever crept through the High Street is more than a match for the most scientific of Englishmen.

With us it is art; with the Scotch it is nature.

They pick your pockets without using their fingers for it; and they prevent reprisal by having nothing for you to pick.
"We left Edinburgh with very long faces, and at Carlisle we found it necessary to separate.

For my part, I went as a valet to a nobleman who had just lost his last servant at Carlisle by a fever; my friend gave me the best of characters! My new master was a very clever man.

He astonished people at dinner by the impromptus he prepared at breakfast; in a word, he was a wit.