FREE AND UKGENTEEL. 
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tliey wlio lately dwelt in the gilded saloons of Belgravia, 
lounged in opera or club house, and in the halls of legis- 
lature uttered words that ruled the destinies of nations, are 
content now to rest beneath the shelter of a Highland 
shieling, on a bed of fragrant heather, and to accept of such 
coarse fare as the situation affords. Noble lord, and most 
noble marquis, becomes for the nonce hail-fellow-well-met 
with the private gentleman, and even the banker's clerk, 
and works and eats (ye gods, how he does eat !) like a 
common man. Over the rough ground he goes (no car- 
riage wanted now) from. 'Sunrise to sunset, feeling more 
strong, and fresh, and vigorous, at every step ; and ten to 
one but you may hear him break out every now and then 
in a song, shockifigly loud and ungenteel, something like 
that of the forester in ^ Waverley' — 
As lip Glenburclien's braes I ga'ed, 
And o'er the bent o' KilKebraid, 
And mony a weary cast I made 
To cricldc the Muir-fowl's tail ; 
If up a bonny Black-cock should spring, 
To whistle him down wi' a slug in his wing, 
And strap him on to my lunzie string, 
Eight seldom would I fail. 
Or, rejoicing in his freedom from the conventional tram- 
mels of ^ good society,' and all such vanities and vexations 
of spirit as kid gloves, cambric handkerchiefs, faultless 
neck-ties, and polished boots that must show no wrinkle, 
be the corns never so rebellious and protuberant, shouting 
forth at the top of his voice — 
The moors ! the moors ! the spreading moors I 
The purple seas that have no shores ! 
The hills sublime 
Who would not climb, 
All in this golden autumn time ? 
Ah ! who indeed, the more especially when you may do 
it in high-lows and gaiters, and a hat of no particular 
shape, that is not stiff and intractable as a chimney-pot, 
but adapts itself nicely to the form of the head; and a 
coat with huge pockets, wherein maybe stowed any quantity 
