"
In the first of these lines, the omission of the former "_which_,"
would remove all objection; and there are others where a final
syllable appears clearly deficient; as thus:--
"Only the road and larches and ruinous millstead between"
[_them_]:--
"Always welcome the stranger: I may say, delighted to see
[_such_] Fine young men:"--
"Nay, never talk: listen now. What I say you can't apprehend"
[_yet_]:--
"Laid her hand on her lap. Philip took it. She did not resist"
[_him_]:--
Yet the following would be scarcely improved by greater exactness:
"Roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from God;"
Nor, perhaps, ought this to be made correct:
"Close as the bodies and intertwining limbs of athletic wrestlers."
The aspect of _fact_ pervading "the Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich,"--(in
English, "the hut of the bearded well," a somewhat singular title, to
say the least,) is so strong and complete as to render necessary the
few words of dedication, where, in inscribing the poem, (or, as the
author terms it, "trifle,") to his "long-vacation pupils," he
expresses a hope, that they "will not be displeased if, in a fiction,
purely fiction, they are here and there reminded of times enjoyed
together."
As the story opens, the Oxford party are about to proceed to dinner
at "the place of the Clansmen's meeting.
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