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.

.224 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
I concluded, therefore, it would be unsafe to present ourselves without some
mediator; and as Campbell, whom I now could not but identify with the
celebrated freebooter Rob Roy, was nowhere to be seen, I resolved to claim
the protection of his emissary; Dougal.
After gazing everywhere in vain, I at length retraced my steps to see
what assistance I could individually render to my unlucky friend, when, to
my great joy, I saw Mr. Jarvie delivered from his state of suspense; and
though very black in the face, and much deranged in the garments, safely
seated beneath the rock, in front of which he had been so lately suspended.
I hastened to join him and offer my congratulations, which he was at first
far from receiving in the spirit of cordiality with which they were offered.
A heavy fit of coughing scarce permitted him breath enough to express the
broken hints which he threw out against my sincerity.
" Uh! uh! uh! uh - they say a friend - uh! uh! -a friend sticketh
closer than a brither — uh! uh! uh! When I came up here, Master Osbaldistone, to this country, cursed of God and man - uh! uh!-Heaven forgie
me for swearing - on'nae man's errand but yours, d'ye think it was fair -
uh! uh! uh! -to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wud
HighlandeIs and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and
earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying-uh! uh!sae muckle as trying to relieve me?'"
I made a thousand apologies, and laboured so hard to represent the
impossibility of my affording him relief by my own unassisted exertions,
that at length I succeeded, and the Bailie, who was as placable as hasty in
his temper, extended his favour to me once more. I next took the liberty of
askl-him how he had contrived to extricate himself.
1'K"Me eltricate! I might hae hung there till the day of judgment or I
ould haed helped mysell, wi' my.head hinging down on the tae side, and
iy hqeellsn the tother, like the yarn-scales in the weigh-house. It was the...atoreo ougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen; he cuttit aff the
tails o' my coat wi' his durk, and another gillie and him set me on my
legs as cleverly as -if I had never been aff them. But to see what a thing
gude braid: claith is! Had I been in ony o' your rotten French camlets
now, or-your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic
a weight as mine. But fair fa' the weaver that wrought the weft o't! -I
swung and bobbit yonder as safe as a gabbart* that's moored by a threeply cable at the Bromielaw."
I now inquired what had become of his preserver.
" The creature," so he continued to call the Highlandman, " contrived to
let me ken there wad be danger in gaun near the leddy till he came back,
and bade me stay here. I am o' the mind," he continued, " that he's seeking after you - it's a considerate creature - arid troth, I wad swear he was
right about the leddy, as he ca's her, too — Helen Campbell was nane o'
the maist douce maidens, nor meekest wives neither, and folk say that Rob
himsell stands in awe o' her. I doubt she winna ken me, for its mony years
since we met - I am clear for waiting for the Dougal creature or we gang
near her."
I signified my acquiescence in this reasoning; but it was not the will
of fate that day that the Bailie's prudence should profit himself or any
one else..
Andrew Fairservice, though he had ceased to caper on the pinnacle upon
the cessation of the firing, which had given occasion for his whimsicat
exercise, continued, as perched on the top of an exposed cliff, too coni
spicuous: an object to escape the sharp eyes of the Highlanders, when the3
had time to look a little around them. We were apprized he was disco
vered, by a wild and loud halloo set up among the assembled victors, thre
* A kind of lighter used in the'river Clyde, —probably from the French gabare,