SOUTHENNAN. BY JOHN GALT, Esq., AUTHOR OF "LAWRIE TODD,” “THE ANNALS OF THE PARISH," &c. PRINTED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-STREET. SOLD BY COLLINS AND HANNAY, COLLINS AND CO., G. AND C. AND H. CARVILI, O. A. SOUTHENNAN. CHAPTER I. "We are prepared, And easily entreated; 'tis good manners FORD. SOUTHENNAN did not find it necessary to proceed so far as the Tolbooth, for he met Cornylees coming from the Council-chamber where he had been before the magistrates, by whom, after his case had been examined, he was discharged. 66 In course now, Southennan," said the exasperated Laird, "this is an awful business; but it's weel o'er, and I must thole the dule o't as weel as I can. Oh, Laird! it's a most horridable thing, in course now, to be kept in the blackhole o' a Tolbooth, frae the yesterday till the morn." Southennan expressed great pleasure at seeing the Laird again at liberty; and it being now nearly dinner time, he returned with him towards the Unicorn. "I think, Cornylees," said he, "it was not becoming your wonted sagacity to be taken in by Auchenbrae ?" "Ye may weel say, taken in; for I had nae business, in course now, wi' him. How I was put into his hole, and how he got out, is past the comprehensions of human nature. It might, in a sense, hae come of Balwham's auld sherries. Hech! but it's stout and gude. I wouldna' mind to hae a crack wi' you, anent my disasters, in course now, o'er a flask o't." In this sort of clishmaclavering they approached the door of the tavern, at which Hughoc was waiting for his master. For some reason or another the boy, on this occasion, did not seem in any particular manner to wish for a private interview; but before Southennan appeared in sight, he had been remarkably sharp on the outlook for him, running con |