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.

TIE ANTIQUARY. 22.5
by your friends, and there's no saying what may happen - Come away with
me, and you shall see what may be useful to you should you ever sit upon a
court-martial, sir."
" I have been on many a regimental court-martial, sir," answered Captain
M'Intyre. " But here's a new cane for you."
" Much obliged, much obliged."
"I bought it from our drum-major," added M'Intyre, "who came into
our regiment from the Bengal army when it came down the Red Sea. It
was cut on the banks of the Indus, I assure you."
"Upon my word,'tis a fine ratan, and well replaces that which the p7? —Bah! what was I going to say?"
The party, consisting of the Antiquary, his nephew, and the old beggar,
now took the sands towards Mussel-crag — the former in the very highest
mood of communicating information, and the others, under a sense of formner obligation, and some hope for future favours, decently attentive to
receive it. The uncle and nephew walked together, the mendicant about a
step and a half behind, just near enough for his patron to speak to him by
a slight inclination of his neck, and without the trouble of turning round.
(Petrie, in his Essay on Good-breeding, dedicated to the magistrates of
Edinburgh, recommends, upon his own experience, as tutor in a family of
distinction, this attitude to all led captains, tutors, dependents, and bottleholders of every description.) Thus escorted, the Antiquary moved along
full of his learning, like a lordly man of war, and every now and then
yawing to starboard and larboard to discharge a broadside upon his followers.
" And so it is your opinion," said he to the mendicant, "that this windfall -this arca auri, as Plautus has it, will not greatly avail Sir Arthur in
his necessities?"
"Unless he could find ten times as much," said the beggar, " and that I
am sair doubtful of; - I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a
sheriff-officer, or messenger, speaking about it-and things are ill aff when
the like o' them can speak crousely about ony gentleman's affairs. I doubt
Sir Arthur will be in stane wa's for debt, unless there's swift help and
certain."
" You speak like a fool," said the Antiquary.-" Nephew, it is a remarkable thing, that in this happy country no man can be legally imprisoned for
debt."
" Indeed, sir?" said M'Intyre; "I never knew that before - that part of
our law would suit some of our mess well."
"And if they arena confined for debt," said Ochiltree, "what is't that
tempts sae mony puir creatures to bide in the tolbooth o' Fairport yonder?
-they a' say they were put there by their creditors-Od 1 they maun like it
better than I do, if they're there o' free will."
"A very natural observation, Edie, and many of your betters would
make the same; but it is founded entirely upon ignorance of the feudal
system. Hector, be so good as to attend, unless you are looking out for
another -- hem!" (Hector compelled himself to give attention at this
hint.) " And you, Edie, it may be useful to you, rerumz cognoscere causas.
The nature and origin of warrant for caption is a thing haud alienum a
Sccvolce studiis.-You must know then, once more, that nobody can be
arrested in Scotland for debt."
"I haena muckle concern wi' that, Monkbarns," said the old man, "for
naebody wad trust a. bodle to a gaberlunzie."
"I pr'ythee, peace, man - As a compulsitor, therefore, of payment,
that being a thing to which no debtor is naturally inclined, as I have too
much reason to warrant fromi the experience I have had with my own, -
we had first the letters of four forms, a sort of gentle invitation, by which
our sovereign lord the king, interesting himself, as a monarch should, in
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