"We shall shortly neither dare shoot a deer nor kiss a wench,without a certificate from the presbytery and kirk-treasurer,"said Mareschal-Wells.

"0r make a brandy jeroboam in a frosty afternoon, without licensefrom a commissioner of excise," exclaimed the smuggler.

"0r ride over the fell in a moonless evening," said Westburnflat,"without asking leave of youthful Earnscliff; or some Englifiedjustice of the peace: thae were gude days on the Border whenthere was neither peace nor justice heard of."

"Let us remember our wrongs at Darien and Glencoe," continuedEllieslaw, "and take arms for the protection of our rights, ourfortunes, our lives, and our families."

"Think upon genuine episcopal ordination, without which there canbe no lawful clergy," exclaimed the divine.