

NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 185 



English martialists : Eut Castleton, you must 

 consider, was only a fort, and Ingleston (as I 

 am told) their assigned locality. Distant some 

 two miles from these weather-beaten reliques, 

 stands the house of Glames, and the fair Fene- 

 ven, situated amongst rivulets. More norward 

 yet we advance upon Forfar, where we may ex- 

 pect as good entertainment as the country is ca- 

 pable of ; and that is good enough, since eating 

 and drinking is not the main of our design : but 

 there stands the town of Forfar, tell me what 

 you think on't ? 



Theoph. I think it's a town ; what would you 

 make on't ? 



Am. Not only a town, but a corporation too, 

 howe're you approve on't. 



Theoph. I approve on't well enough, where 

 lies the objection ? here's nothing that I see pre- 

 sents uncomely : But how goes the story of the 

 good man's cow ? and what became of the old 

 wife's liquor ? 



Arn. I matter not much if I give you the 

 relation, as neatly drest up as the circumstances 

 will bear ; for there was, Tie assure you, a very 

 hardy adventure, hapned betwixt the brewster 

 wife, and Puggy the cow of Billie Pringle. 



Theoph. Pray, let us have it, I grow impatient 

 to hear it ; Tie remark the beginning, and dili- 

 gently attend the conclusion. 



