but just keepit straight forward upon the ice like."
"Well, but what did ye speak about?"
"Ou, he just asked questions like ony ither stranger."—
"But about what?"
"Ou, just about the folk that was playing at the curling, and about auld Jock Stevenson that was at the cock, and about the leddies, and sic like."
"What ladies? and what did he ask about them, Jock?"
"What leddies? ou it was Miss Jowlia Mannering and Miss Lucy Bertram, that ye ken fu' weel yoursell, Mr Glossin—they were walking wi' the young Laird of Hazlewood upon the ice?"
"And what did you tell him about them?"
"Tut, we just said that was Miss Lucy Bertram of Ellangowan, that should ance have had a great estate in the country—and that was Miss Jowlia Mannering, that was to be married to young Hazlewood— See as she was hinging on his arm—we
