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PoiET. — Why, this inn is a second edition 

 of Auchnasheen. 



Hal. — The interior is better than the 

 exterior, thanks to the Laird of Brahan : we 

 shall find one tolerable room and bed ; and 

 we must put up our cots and provide our food. 

 What is our store, Mr. Purveyor ? 



Phys. — I know we have good bread, tea, 

 and sugar. Then there is the quarter of roe- 

 buck presented to us at Gordon Castle ; and 

 Ornither has furnished us with a brace of 

 wild ducks, three leash of snipes, and a brace 

 of golden plovers, by his mountain expedition 

 of yesterday ; and for fish we depend on you. 

 Yet our host says there are fresh herrings to 

 be had, and small cod-fish, and salmon and 

 trout in any quantity, and the claret and the 

 Ferintosh are safe. 



Hal. — Why, we shall fare sumptuously. 

 As it is not time yet for shooting grouse, we 

 must divide our spoil for the few days we 

 shall stay here. Yet there are young snipes 

 and plovers on the mountains above, and I 

 have no doubt we might obtain the Laird's 

 permission to kill a roebuck in the woods or 

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