"Eh—how are you? Well, I think I am better, d'ye know."
"Glad to hear it."
"Thankee—thankee—d'ye know, eh, I've changed my doctor?"
"Well, and how d'ye like your new one?"
"Capitally—eh—d'ye know, he's a clever fellow. Young—eh—but clever—very. D'ye know, eh—he corresponds regularly with—eh—with Sir Humphrey Newton and Sir Isaac Davy!"
THE DREAM OF LORD NITHSDALE.
BY CHARLES MACKAY.
[Lord Nithsdale, as is well known, was condemned to death for his participation in the Rebellion of 1715. By the exertions of his true-hearted wife, Winifred, he was enabled to escape from the Tower of London on the night before the morning appointed for his execution. The lady herself—noble soul!—has related, in simple and touching language, in a letter to her sister, the whole circumstances of her lord's escape. The letter is preserved in the Appendix to "Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song," page 313 to 329—London, 1810.]