Guy Mannering.

298 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
"I'll pray for nane o' him," said Meg, " nor for you
neither, you randy dog. The times are sair altered since
I was a kitchen-mort.* Men were men then, and fought
other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the
darkmans.t And the gentry had kind hearts, and would
have given baith lap and pannel + to ony puir gipsy; and
there was not one, from Johnnie Faa, the upright man,~
to little Christie that was in the panniers, would cloyed a
dud II from them. But ye are a' altered from the gude
auld rules, and no wonder that you scour the crampring,
and trine to the cheat [ sace often. Yes, ye are a' altered
-you'll eat the goodman's meat, drink his drink, sleep
on the strammel *B in his barn, and break his house and
cut his throat for his pains! There's blood on your
hands, too, ye dogs-mair than ever came there by fair
fighting. See how ye'll die then-lang it was ere he
died-he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die
nor live; —but you-half the country will see how ye'll
grace the woodie."
The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy.
" What made you come back here, ye auld beldam?"
said one of the gipsies; " could ye not have staid where
you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?Bing out and tour,tt ye auld devil, and see that nobody
has scented; that's a' you're good for now."
" Is that a' I am good for now?" said the indignant
matron. " I was good for mair than that in the great
fight between our folk and Patrico Salmon's; if I had
not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her
> A girl. t Murder by night.
J Liquor and food. ~ The leader (and greatest rogue) of the gang.
[] Stolen a rag. [ Get imprisoned and hanged.
3*- Straw. f t Go out and watch.