I don't affect to be more squeamish than my neighbours, but I am not ashamed to say that no practice ever reconciled me fully to the cruelty of the affair.

At all events, now that I can do as I like without fear of ridicule, I take more pleasure in seeing the birds fly past me unharmed." (Lockhart, vii.

331.) [I-F] p.240.

"Tintock." A hill on the Upper Tweed, celebrated in local rhyme as-- On Tintock tap there is a mist, And in the mist there is a kist, And in the kist there is a cap, And in the cap there is a drap.
Tak' up the cap, drink out the drap, And set it down on Tintock tap.
[I-G] p.245.

"Donald Cargill." See Editor's Notes to "Redgauntlet." Howie of Lochgoin says Cargill was executed in Edinburgh, not at Queensferry, as stated here.
ANDREW LANG _December 1893._ GLOSSARY.
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