"Think of the piracies committed on our East-Indian trade byGreen and the English thieves," exclaimed William Willieson, half-owner and sole skipper of a brig that made four voyages annuallybetween Cockpool and Whitehaven.

"Remember your liberties," rejoined Mareschal, who seemed to takea mischievous delight in precipitating the movements of theenthusiasm which he had excited, like a roguish boy, who, havinglifted the sluice of a mill-dam, enjoys the clatter of the wheelswhich he has put in motion, without thinking of the mischief hemay have occasioned. "Remember your liberties," he exclaimed;"confound cess, press, and presbytery, and the memory of agedWillie that first brought them upon us!"

"Damn the gauger!" echoed very ancient Harold Rewcastle; "I'll cleave himwi' my ain arm."

"And confound the country-keeper and the constable!" re-echoedWestburnflat; "I'll weize a brace of balls through them beforemorning."

"We are agreed, then," exclaimed Ellieslaw, when the shouts hadsomewhat subsided, "to bear this state of skinnygs no longer?"