The traveller was obliged to her for the hint, and, conducted by Jem, he proceeded on his pedestrian pilgrimage to what was emphatically called "the Hall." On his way thither he was curious to extract from his conductor some information respecting Lord Arlington, and the light in which he was regarded in that neighbourhood. "Is Lord Arlington popular hereabouts?" he asked.
"Sir?" was the exclamation of the uncomprehending Jem, a short, bandy-legged, ostlerlike looking youth of about twenty.
"I mean," said the traveller, altering his phraseology , " is he liked in this neighbourhood? "
"Oh -- ay -- yes , he's liked very well, for he's a very good gentleman, and spends a sight of money here. There's lots of hands as he employs one way or tother , and nobody hereabouts needs be out of work as wants to have it ; only, you see, it would be better for the inn if he didn't live so quiet like, but had gentlefolks come and see him, just as other gentlefolks do; howsumever , that's partly his own consarn , for the inn is my Lord's, and master says he can't pay him hardly no rent if he don't do nothing for it. "
"People would be sorry, I suppose, if Lord Arlington were to go away from here?"
" Ay , surely. It has been a rare thing for the parish him coming and living down here."
"Is he charitable?" inquired the traveller; " does he give away much money ?"
"He gives some sometimes to them as can't work , but he generally gives work to them as can ."
"Is he often seen?"
"Oh -- ay -- you 'll see him most days riding or walking somewhere abouts, but he don't go much off his own ground -- but then that reaches a long way; why it is all my Lord's as far as you can see, and a mile or two afore you came to the village."
"Does he dislike being met or spoken to?"
"Eh! no -- not at all -- at least by them as live about here . He talks a deal to 'em , and knows them well nigh all, I reckon; there an't a gentleman in the land as is freer and pleasantspokener than my Lord, and he isn't stiff and high a bit, and not as they say lords is elsewhere."
"Do any gentlemen of the neighbourhood ever call upon his Lordship?"
"No, Sir, none as I knows of; but there is no gentleman very nigh ; Squire Grufferton is the nighest , and he is about twelve miles off."
"Then Lord Arlington lives quite alone, doesn't he?"
"No, Sir."
"No! and who lives with him?"
"Oh, there's Master Bennet the steward, and there's the butler, and -- "
"Ah! his establishment, his servants; but is there anybody else?"
"No, Sir, nobody as I knows of ."

"Well," said Gobbins, relaxing from his ill-humour, "I will see -- I don't mind a little money; thank God, I'm well to do. I can't , no, nor no other true-born Englishman can't never travel, nor do nothen else, upon an empty stomach, as you Scotch can."
Moffat told him he was an Irishman, but his mother was Scotch; to which Gobbins replied, with a grin -- " Ay , ay , it's all the same in the Greek, you knows -- the devil a barrel the better herring ."

"Miss Chrighton!" said Gobbins -- "Miss Chrighton! you are the landlord's daughter, a'n't ye ?"
" I'm Christy Crichton," said she, rather piqued; " There's nae Misses here."
"Well," said he, in a coaxing tone, "your house has a great reputation, my bawney lass ; and I would like (for the honour of Scotland you know) to treat an English gentleman, a friend of mine, handsomely, and --"
He was going on, when Christy, who had a good deal of mother wit about her, and saw through his " fleeching ," replied -- "Hadn't ye better gie him a guse , gif ye mean maister Corderoy?"
Gobbins knew enough Scotch to understand that she meant a goose, though the allusion to the trade of Joseph was lost upon him. But it so happened, that the Perthshire aunt was a cousin of Crichton's. -- "A goose!" said Gobbins, considering -- "No." His eye was attracted at this moment by the sight of a fine cock, who stood on the top of the midden close to the room window, and crowed with all his might. -- "Have you any moor cocks?" asked he.
"Oh, ay -- wealth o' them," was the reply.
"Then let us have a couple of fine ones," eagerly said Gobbins; "and I know you will do them just to a turn. Game I am most particularly fond of, and I dare say you are quite in the habit of dressing it. I am sure I shall make an excellent dinner. As to fish, or soup, or any thing else, I leave that entirely to you, my bawney lass . And remember, just to the tick of the clock, piping hot, and a nice brown toast under -- bread sauce, and gravy, and not over done; and -- fish, and the rest -- I know I can trust to you, my bawney lass ," repeated he again.

"Now, Massa Easy, I hab a long tory to tell -- so I tink I better begin at the beginning."
"It is the most approved method," replied Jack; "but stop when I hold up my finger, that we may translate what you say to the lady and Don Philip."
" Dat all right, sar . Friar and I get on two mule as soon as it quite dark. He make me carry all tousand dollars -- and we ride out of town. We go up mountain and mountain, but the moon get up shine and we go on cheek by jowl -- he nebber say one word and I nebber say one word, 'cause I no speak his lingo, and he no understand my English . About two o'clock in de morning, we stop at a house and stay dere till eight o' clock, and den we go on again all next day, up all mountain , only stop once, eat a bit bread , and drink lilly wine. Second night come on, and den we stop again, and people bow very low to him, and woman bring in rabbit for make supper. I go in the kitchen, woman make stew smell nice, so I nod my head, and I say very good, and she make a face, and throw on table black loaf of bread and garlic, and make sign dat for my supper; good enough for black fellow , and dat rabbit stew for friar . Den I say to myself, stop a little; suppose friar hab all de rabbit, I tink I give him a lilly powder."
"The powder, Mesty?" exclaimed Jack.
"What does he say?" inquired Don Philip.
Gascoigne translated all that Mesty had communicated. The interest of the narrative now became exciting .

" It's my peculiar hopinion ," said Mr. Easthupp, one evening, pulling at the frill of his shirt, "that a gentleman should behave as a gentleman, and that if a gentleman professes hopinions of hequality and such liberal sentiments, that he is bound as a gentleman to hact up to them."
"Very true, Mr. Easthupp, he is bound to act up to them; and not because a person, who was a gentleman as well as himself, happens not to be on the quarter-deck, to insult him because he only has perfessed opinions like his own."
Hereupon Mr. Biggs struck his rattan against the funnel, and looked at our hero.
"Yes," continued the purser's steward, "I should like to see the fellow who would have done so on shore: however, the time will come, when I can hagain pull hon my plain coat, and then the hinsult shall be vashed hout in blood, Mr. Biggs."
"And I'll be cursed if I don't some day teach a lesson to the blackguard who stole my trousers."
" Vas hall your money right, Mr. Biggs?" inquired the purser's steward.
"I didn't count," replied the boatswain, magnificently.
"No -- gentlemen are habove that," replied Easthupp; "but there are many light-fingered gentry habout . The quantity of vatches and harticles of value vich ver lost ven I valked Bond Street in former times is incredible."

" It's my peculiar hopinion ," said Mr. Easthupp, one evening, pulling at the frill of his shirt, "that a gentleman should behave as a gentleman, and that if a gentleman professes hopinions of hequality and such liberal sentiments, that he is bound as a gentleman to hact up to them."
"Very true, Mr. Easthupp, he is bound to act up to them; and not because a person, who was a gentleman as well as himself, happens not to be on the quarter-deck, to insult him because he only has perfessed opinions like his own."
Hereupon Mr. Biggs struck his rattan against the funnel, and looked at our hero.
"Yes," continued the purser's steward, "I should like to see the fellow who would have done so on shore: however, the time will come, when I can hagain pull hon my plain coat, and then the hinsult shall be vashed hout in blood, Mr. Biggs."
"And I'll be cursed if I don't some day teach a lesson to the blackguard who stole my trousers."
" Vas hall your money right, Mr. Biggs?" inquired the purser's steward.
"I didn't count," replied the boatswain, magnificently.
"No -- gentlemen are habove that," replied Easthupp; "but there are many light-fingered gentry habout . The quantity of vatches and harticles of value vich ver lost ven I valked Bond Street in former times is incredible."

When I was driving out the gaislings to the grass on the next morn, who was it my ill fate to meet but the blacksmith. " Ou , Mansie," said Jamie Coom, "are ye gaun to take me for your best man? I hear you are to be cried in the kirk on Sunday?"
"Me!" answered I, shaking and staring.
"Yes!" said he, "Jess the minister's maid told me last night, that you had been giving up your name at the manse . Ay , it's ower true -- for she showed me the apples ye gied her in a present. This is a bonny story, Mansie, my man, and you only at your prenticeship yet."

"Dame Glendinning," answered the Monk, somewhat abruptly, when the good woman had finished her narrative, "I pray you, do you know the miller's daughter?"
"Did I know Kate Happer?" replied the widow; " as weel as the beggar knows his dish -- a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain may be twenty years syne . "
"She cannot be the wench I mean," said father Eustace; " she after whom I enquire is scarce fifteen, a black-eyed girl -- you may have see her at the kirk ."
" Your reverence must be in the right; she is my cummer's niece, doubtless, you are pleased to speak of: But I thank God I have always been too duteous in attention to the mass, to know whether young wenches have black eyes or green ones. "

"There are two hostelries in this Kirk-town," said Mysie, "but the worst is best for our purpose; for it stands apart from the other houses, and I ken the man weel , for he has dealt with my father for malt. "
This causa scientiae , to use a lawyer's phrase, was ill chosen for Mysie's purpose; for Sir Piercie Shafton had, by dint of his own loquacity, been talking himself all this while into a high esteem for his fellow-traveller, and, pleased with the gracious reception which she afforded to his powers of conversation, had well nigh forgotten that she was not herself one of those high-born beauties of whom he was recounting so many stories, when this unlucky speech at once placed the most disadvantageous circumstances attending her lineage under his immediate recollection.

" Ah , oui , il ne vous manque que cela : ah , dat is, you would be so near parfait , if you could but to know de French. But I do love de English! d' English is charmante ! -- she is -- beautiful rolling language! -- But monsieur vicaire , shall I shew you mon petit trésor -- de little Charles?"
"I thank you, mademoiselle," cried the vicar, as he looked at his watch: "I am contented that he is well. It is time that you present me to madame Adéle."
"Oh dear, no, not at all in de vorld !" urged mademoiselle: "I must have de pleasure to shew you mon petit . C'est en enfant qui -- dat is, e is wonderful shild -- very quite wonderful! and he speak d' English and de French as I do tell him. C'est un veritable plaisir -- it is pleasure d'entendre parler dat ."