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Many a crest that is famous in story,Mount, and make ready then,Sons of the mountain glen,Fight for the Queen and our old Scottish glory.
2.Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing,Come from the glen of the buck and the roe;Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing,Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow.Trumpets are sounding,War-steeds are bounding,Stand to your arms then, and march in good order,England shall many a dayTell of the bloody fray,When the Blue Bonnets came over the Border.

The song, rude as it was, had in it that warlike character which at any other time would have roused Halbert's spirit; but at present the charm of minstrelsy had no effect upon him. He made it his request to Christie to suffer him to retire to rest, a request with which that worthy person, seeing no chance of making a favourable impression on his intended proselyte in his present humour, was at length pleased to comply. But no Serjeant Kite, who ever prac-

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