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"I dinna ken your name, sir, or I wad call you by it"

"My name is Allan Caht to pleasure you?"

"I wantit

Can you get it for , sir"

"There is a box of books also, but they are very heavy"

"Books! We'll try and bring them ony way"

"You love books then?"

"Better than bread"

"What have you read?"

"I have read my Bible, and The Institutes, and the Scot's Worthies, and

pairt o' the Pilgriress But I didna approve o' John Bunyan's

doctrine It's rank Armenianism"

"I have just finished a volume of Scott's poems Have you read any of

them?"

"Na, na; I hae nae skill o' poetry, sir, an' it be na the Psalms o'

David"

"Let me read you a stanza, that I think you will enjoy"

He went for his book and drew a chair beside the little light, and read

with a great deal of fire and feeling soes from "The Lay of the