`` But a glass of ale you may have , and welcome , '' said I . He mopped and mowed at me , and called me names ; but he was glad to get the ale , for all that ; and presently we were set down at a table in the front room of the inn , and both eating and drinking with a good appetite . Here it occurred to me that , as the landlord was a man of that county , I might do well to make a friend of him . I offered him a share , as was much the custom in those days ; but he was far too great a man to sit with such poor customers as Ransome and myself , and he was leaving the room , when I called him back to ask if he knew Mr. Rankeillor . `` Hoot , ay , '' says he , `` and a very honest man . And , O , by-the-by , '' says he , `` was it you that came in with Ebenezer ? '' And when I had told him yes , `` Ye 'll be no friend of his ? '' he asked , meaning , in the Scottish way , that I would be no relative . I told him no , none . `` I thought not , '' said he , `` and yet ye have a kind of gliff * of Mr. Alexander . '' * Look . I said it seemed that Ebenezer was ill-seen in the country . `` Nae doubt , '' said the landlord . `` He 's a wicked auld man , and there 's many would like to see him girning in the tow * . Jennet Clouston and mony mair that he has harried out of house and hame . And yet he was ance a fine young fellow , too . But that was before the sough ** gaed abroad about Mr. Alexander , that was like the death of him . '' * Rope . ** Report . `` And what was it ? ''
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