, who will see Bland
, but I have no great hopes of his obtaining the translation from the crowd of candidates. Yesterday I wrote to Harness, who will probably tell you what I said on the subject. Hobhouse has sent me my Romaic MS., and I shall require your aid in correcting the press, as your Greek eye is more correct than mine. But these will not come to type this month, I dare say. I
put some soft lines on ye Scotch in the
Curse of Minerva
; take them;
"Yet Caledonia claims some native worth," etc.[3]
If you are not content now, I must say with the Irish drummer to the deserter who called out,
"Flog high, flog low"
"The de'il burn ye, there's no pleasing you, flog where one will."