The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

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an enemy or a stranger to the pleasures of a good table, found that, on the
present occasion, he was a mere novice. Both his companions, but Smith
in especial, seemed to consider that they were now engaged in the only true
and real business of life; and weighed all its minutim with a proportional
degree of accuracy. To carve the morsel in the most delicate manner-and
to apportion the proper seasoning with the accuracy of the chemist,-to be
aware, exactly, of the order iql which one dish should succeed another, and
to do plentiful justice to all - was a minuteness of science to which Julian
had hitherto been a stranger. Smith accordingly treated him as a mere
novice in epicurism, cautioning him to eat his soup before the bouilli, and
to forget the Manx custom of bolting the boiled meat before the broth, as
if Cutlar MacCulloch* and all his whingers were at the door. Peveril took
the hint in good part, and the entertainment proceeded with animation.
At length Ganlesse paused, and declared the supper exquisite. "But,
my friend Smith," he added, "are your wines curious? When you brought
all that trash of plates and trumpery into Derbyshire, I hope you did not
leave us at the mercy of the strong ale of the shire, as thick and muddy as
the squires who drink it?"
"Did I not know that you were to meet me, Dick Ganlesse?" answered
their host. "And can you suspect me of such an omission? It is true,
you must make champagne and claret serve, for my burgundy would not
bear travelling. But if you have a fancy for sherry, or Vin de Cahors, I
have a notion Chaubert and Tom Beacon have brought some for their own
drinking."' Perhaps the gentlemen would not care to impart," said Ganlesse.
"Oh, fie! —any thing in the way of civility," replied Smith. " They are,
in truth, the best-natured lads alive, when treated respectfully; so that if
you would prefer -"
* This alludes to a singular custom of the inhabitants of the northern coast of the Isle of Man, who used
of old to eat the soelden meat before they supped the broth, lest, it is said, they should be deprived of the rnore
substantial part of the meal, if they waited to eat it at the second course.
They account for this anomaly in the following manner: -About the commencement of the sixteenth century, the Earl of Derby, being a fiery young clsief, fond of war and honour, made a furious inroad, with all
his forces, into the Stewartry of Kirlcudbright, and committed great ravages, still remembered in MIanx song.
Mir. Train, with his usual kindness, sent me the following literal translation of the verses:
"There came Thomas Derby, born kIing, "On Scottishmen he avenged himself;
He it was who wore the golden crupper; -ie went over to Iirkcaudbright,
There was not one lord in wide England itself, And there made such hlavoc of houses
With so many vassals as he had. That some are unilnhabitable to this day.
Was not that fail in a youth,
To avenge himself on his foe while he was so young,
Before his beard had grown around his mouth,
And to bring home his men in safety?"
This incursion of the Earl with the golden crupper was severely revenged. The gentlemen of the name
of MacC'ullochs, a clan then and now powerful in Galloway, had at their head, at the time, a chief of courage
and activity, named Cutlar IlacCulloch. He was an excellent seaman, and speedily equipped a predatory
flotilla, with which he made repeated descents on the northern shores of the Isle of SIan, the dominions of
the Earl of Derby, carrying off all that was not, in the border phrase. too hot or too heavy.
The following is the deposition of John Aiachaliotic concerinug the losses lie had suffered by this sea-lting
and his Galloway men. It is dated at Peel Castle:-" Taken by Collard MtacCulloch, and his men by wrongous
spoliation, Twa box beddes and aykin burtles, i c lathe, a feder bouster, a cote of Mailzie, a mete burde, two
kystis, five barrels, a gyle-fat, xx pipes, twa gunys, three bolls of malt, a querne of rosate of vi stane, certain
petes, [peats,l extending to i c load, viii bolls of threschit corn, xii unthraschin, and xl knowte." —Challerson,
p. 47, edit. London, 1653.
This active rover rendered his name-so formidable,.that the custom of eating the ameat before the broth
was introduced by the islanders whose festivals he often interrupted. They also remembered him in their
prayers and graces; as,
"God keep the house and all within,
From Cut MuacCulloch alld his kill:"
or, as I have heard it recited,
"God keep the good corn, and the sheep, and the busllock,
From Satan, firon sin, and from Cutlar MacCulloch.'
It is said to ha.ve chanced, as the master of the house-had uttered one of these popular benisols, that Cut-.ar in person entered the habitation with this reply:
"Gudemnn, gudemnan, ye pray too late,,MacCulloch's ships are at the ~aite."'I he Yaite is a well-rknown landing place on the north side of the Isle of Malt.
This redoubted corsair is, I believe, no-w represented by the chief of the name, James MacCuhIoch, Esq. of
Ardwall, the author's friend and near connection.
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