Show oils SIR WALTER SCOTT I 1 liko like to tell you a little story in connection with scott it is ig probable that lew few it if my any in this room have looked upon bis living faco dear bear with mo me abilo I 1 to re count ft a trilling incident but to me it a rare rara ill ca of rood good fortune which blob befell me in ID ty youth in relation to tho the author ol of waverly in those lays days 1 I was u ai ft A devo deTOur ci 0 of f bill big novels awni in the habit of fro autly looking in at the court of session ion la IQ the iho old parliament house of where hero scott in hr his official po aaion AS one of the iho cerks of be court used to sit nib while it was in I 1 alwag alwa a tried to got as near him as a I 1 could to raze caw upon that thai noticeable face and head bond which once seen scon could ho forgotten U MM a faco in which were combined ahrea descos discos hurto home kindliness keen perception rua sagacity whilo bite to theme wax a carL sail to use UBO a catch v ord u aich 1 ham bu to BO equivalent in englad he would now nna and thou thoa n go words kiib tit his brother officials ciali n who he ant beside urn lim or op joalto pouto to him on tile tho other oilier side of tho the title table often some omo joke would pua pass and thru then lis bin face ottle light up op and amando a break out t and all ajl over I 1 it ir hla big merry eye must ou supplanted chuckle revealing acte aling tho the scene ol of burn humor r that bad stirred him little 11 ll it was in the summer of 1829 that bhala ihala it commercial traveller a friend of mines mine bound for proposed to drive mo me thither from FAm edinburgh burgh nod and back flam an AM I 1 had bad never clever seen Ab Abbo botford kford I 1 eagerly seized thu this favorable opportunity of being taken sa BO near the place having peen een scott in tho the parliament house tho the nary day before I 1 concluded hones for tho the tune issue resident in town aul that there would bo be no di what elver la in gamin gaining nl ail mission to tho the house mad and fic curda of Ab ALho botsford teford it was wa arranged thib while ray my friend was bin bia busu neen it Galada ints I 1 should walk on to the tweed I 1 on month bank stands rd near the river mackeil by tho the triple tillie hills b be ferried ac acro evil alij return in it n few fen laura to my friend the old man for nut who opened tho the door to mo me regretted tit th it I 1 could ant bo 10 admitted i be canso so CA abil d he is the Is at home nod in the honc homill and od stra lugers are no admitted ulson ile hu r here 1 thus my fine buths a tile ho do clo id tic all fit at once and I 1 stood if if md and disappointed telling the old men man thel I 1 had bad come all tile ali way from edinburgh linburgh FA that day to see bee the place and that I 1 bul bid never mover dreamed him bin matter win at home haelig myself seen can him in the court couri on OD the abo provi previous ouis day yo air bore be re plied ho he comes out oct hero IN whenever hoti ever bo be cot can yot t a day een cien whon when the courts wo e me outlast nit it el roll im morry korry yovo had tho the trouble ascertains 0 comin BAO so far for na othin at that moment scott core connoy ag out of ova of the rooms enting entering from tho the corridor hail bull reached len hall chero I 1 stood blood on his hia way to use iho ground ho oad lu also ft homely mely suit of black and w ft a belt round bin bia waists in which wore ato atuel cis a hatchets hatchet a hammer and a great saw law whilo while two largo dogs doga gam gambolled about him looping leaping up upon him bite ui to their eager fond num rod lidd head to bo be palled 6 what a tho the young bags bu burneas uneas abud bo be tho the it ho 1 att I to rice re to him what ant I 1 bad be bucu 01 sayias whilo while I 1 stood all of a tremble with wilb my heart beating against my ribs before 1 I could rather courage to say my A word for my pelf scott turning tr to mo me said As AA ji on oil have come so BO lar far young loan laan to lo see roo tho the place you must moat not be xo so you con can just juitt gone through the house and we co Is ht tover you like good uny tiny air before beloro I 1 could thank lim him ho he passed out into tho the grounds tho the doga dog still looping up upon him he be pushing panning them ott oil mid find playfully scalding cold Jog thom them thin was my lajb foot klimpt glim pt a of f scott at thin time ho be was working bard with deadly mardist coot to retrieve his misfortunes all aud pay his cris creditors ditora ile ho looked paler tann lhnn usual and was vc as cart men and d 1 his ans about three years before his big final break becak down and death Al alexander emilder ireland in a ul fit ter |