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.

212 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
"They are of your lordship's own breeding," said Calvert, " got by Mad
Tom out of Jemima and Yarico, your lordship's brood mares."
" Are there more of the set?" said Lord Glenallan.
" Two, my lord, —one rising four, the other five off this grass, both very
handsome."
"Then let Dawkins bring them down to Monkbarns to-morrow," said
the Earl-" I hope Captain M'Intyre will accept them, if they are at all fit
for service."
Captain M'Intyre's eyes sparkled, and he was profuse in grateful acknowledgments; while Oldbuck, on the other hand, seizing the Earl's
sleeve, endeavoured to intercept a present which boded no good to his cornchest and hay-loft.
" My lord - my lord - much obliged - much obliged - But Hector is a
pedestrian, and never mounts on horseback in battle - he is a Highland
soldier, moreover, and his dress ill adapted for cavalry service. Even
Macpherson never mounted his ancestors on horseback, though he has the
impudence to talk of their being car-borne - and that, my lord, is what is
running in Hector's head - it is the vehicular, not the equestrian exercise,
which he enviesSunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegisse juvat.
His noddle is running on a curricle, which he has neither money to buy,
nor skill to drive if he had it; and I assure your lordship, that the possession of two such quadrupeds would prove a greater scrape than any of
his duels, whether with human foe or with my friend the plToca."
"You must command us all at present, Mr. Oldbuck," said the Earl,
politely; " but I trust you will not ultimately prevent my gratifying my
young friend in some way that may afford him pleasure?"
"Any thing useful, my lord," said Oldbuck, "but no curriculum - I
protest he might as rationally propose to keep a quacdriga at once — And
now I think of it, what is that old post-chaise from Fairport come jingling
here for?-I did not send for it."
",I did, sir," said Hector, rather sulkily, for he was not much gratified
by his uncle's interference to prevent the Earl's intended generosity, nor
particularly inclined to relish either the disparagement which he cast upon
his skill as a charioteer, or the mortifying allusion to his bad success in
the adventures of the duel and the seal.
"You did, sir?" echoed the Antiquary, in answer to his concise information. "And pray, what may be your business with a post-chaise? Is
this splendid equipage - this biga, as I may call it - to serve for an introduction to a quadriga or a curriculum?"
"Really, sir," replied the young soldier, "if it be necessary to give you
such a specific explanation, I am going to Fairport on a little business."
" Will you permit me to inquire into the nature of that business, Hector?"
answered his uncle, who loved the exercise of a little brief authority over
his relative. " I should suppose any regimental affairs might be transacted
by your worthy deputy the sergeant-an honest gentleman, who is so good
as to make Monkbarns his home since his arrival among us - I should, I
say, suppose that he may transact any business of yours, without your
spending a day's pay on two dog-horses, and such a combination of rotten
wood, cracked glass, and leather-such a skeleton of a post-chaise, as that
before the door."
"It is not regimental business, sir, that calls me; and, since you insist
upon knowing, I must inform you, Caxon has brought word this morning
that old Ochiltree, the beggar, is to be brought up for examination to-day,
previous to his being committed for trial; and I am going to see that the
poor old fellow get's fair play -that's all."
"Ay? -- I heard something of this, but could not think it serious. And