says Robin . `` Well , I wouldnae wonder , '' said Alan . `` The gentleman I have in my mind had the ill-taste to clap Campbell to his name . '' `` My father was an old man , '' returned Robin . `` The match was unequal . You and me would make a better pair , sir . '' `` I was thinking that , '' said Alan . I was half out of bed , and Duncan had been hanging at the elbow of these fighting cocks , ready to intervene upon the least occasion . But when that word was uttered , it was a case of now or never ; and Duncan , with something of a white face to be sure , thrust himself between . `` Gentlemen , '' said he , `` I will have been thinking of a very different matter , whateffer . Here are my pipes , and here are you two gentlemen who are baith acclaimed pipers . It 's an auld dispute which one of ye 's the best . Here will be a braw chance to settle it . '' `` Why , sir , '' said Alan , still addressing Robin , from whom indeed he had not so much as shifted his eyes , nor yet Robin from him , `` why , sir , '' says Alan , `` I think I will have heard some sough * of the sort . Have ye music , as folk say ? Are ye a bit of a piper ? '' * Rumour . `` I can pipe like a Macrimmon ! '' cries Robin . `` And that is a very bold word , '' quoth Alan .
`` I have made bolder words good before now , '' XXXXX Robin , `` and that against better adversaries . ''
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