'A tatter of plaid of the Black Watch.

I have dandled ye, and kist ye and plaid with ye A hundred, and a hundred times, and danc'd ye, And swong ye in my Bell-ropes, ye lov'd swinging.

Breakfast having been despatched, and Cheviot fed, he once more wrapped his shepherd's plaid about him, remembering to put a book or two, and perhaps a piece of bannock, into the neuk of it, and set out to find his flock.

" Milly was being rapidly covered up in a thick plaid by Mrs. Maxwell.

So Decker: "Talke of none but lords and such ladies with whom you have plaid at Primero.

It was a wooden pipe for my father, or a Shetland plaid for my mother, or a book for me, or a brass collar for Rob the collie.

Musgrave has made her as comfortable as he can, with her back against the poor little Scotch fir, and a plaid over both their heads.

" He wrapped his plaid around him and said no more, and I was not a little pleased at having silenced him by my resolute behaviour.

After these I saw a Man advance in the full Prime and Vigour of his Age, his Complexion was sanguine and ruddy, his Hair black, and fell down in beautiful Ringlets not beneath his Shoulders, a Mantle of Hair-colour'd Silk hung loosely upon him: He advanced with a hasty Step after the Spring, and sought out the Shade and cool Fountains which plaid in the Garden.

When I look at that face as white as chalk, no bigger than my fist, those feet like walking-sticks, and that shrunken figure, wrapped up in a plaid during the hottest of weathers, I am truly sorry for him.