I played some grand springs, and I thought I played them awful bonny; I vow whiles that I could hear the squeal of them! But the great affair is that it's done with." With that he carried me again to my adventures, which he heard all over again with more particularity, and extraordinary approval, swearing at intervals that I was "a queer character of a callant." "So ye were frich'ened of Sym Fraser ?" he asked once.
"In troth was I!" cried I.
"So would I have been, Davie," said he.

"And that is indeed a dreidful man.

But it is only proper to give the de'il his due; and I can tell you he is a most respectable person on the field of war." "Is he so brave ?" I asked.
"Brave!" said he.

"He is as brave as my steel sword." The story of my duel set him beside himself.
"To think of that!" he cried.

"I showed ye the trick in Corrynakiegh too.