`` I think I see ye ! '' said I. `` And what 's more than all that : if ye pass a bridge , it can tell no tales ; but if we pass the firth , there 's the boat on the wrong side -- somebody must have brought it -- the country-side will all be in a bizz -- '' `` Man ! '' cried Alan , `` if I make a boat , I 'll make a body to take it back again ! So deave me with no more of your nonsense , but walk -LRB- for that 's what you 've got to do -RRB- -- and let Alan think for ye . '' All night , then , we walked through the north side of the Carse under the high line of the Ochil mountains ; and by Alloa and Clackmannan and Culross , all of which we avoided : and about ten in the morning , mighty hungry and tired , came to the little clachan of Limekilns . This is a place that sits near in by the water-side , and looks across the Hope to the town of the Queensferry . Smoke went up from both of these , and from other villages and farms upon all hands . The fields were being reaped ; two ships lay anchored , and boats were coming and going on the Hope . It was altogether a right pleasant sight to me ; and I could not take my fill of gazing at these comfortable , green , cultivated hills and the busy people both of the field and sea . For all that , there was Mr. Rankeillor 's house on the south shore , where I had no doubt wealth awaited me ; and here was I upon the north , clad in poor enough attire of an outlandish fashion , with three silver shillings left to me of all my fortune , a price set upon my head , and an outlawed man for my sole company . `` O , Alan ! '' said I , `` to think of it ! Over there , there 's all that heart could want waiting me ; and the birds go over , and the boats go over -- all that please can go , but just me only ! O , man , but it 's a heart-break ! '' In Limekilns we entered a small change-house , which we only knew to be a public by the wand over the door , and bought some bread and cheese from a good-looking lass that was the servant . This we carried with us in a bundle , meaning to sit and eat it in a bush of wood on the sea-shore , that we saw some third part of a mile in front . As we went , I kept looking across the water and sighing to myself ; and though I took no heed of it , Alan had fallen into a muse . At last he stopped in the way . `` Did ye take heed of the lass we bought this of ? '' says he , tapping on the bread and cheese .
`` To be sure , '' XXXXX I , `` and a bonny lass she was . ''
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