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epherdand invited him to dinner on one of his visits to Edinburgh:
When Hogg entered the drawing-roomMrs Scottbeing at the time in
a delicate state of healthwas reclining on a sofa. The Shepherdafter
being presented and making his best bowforthwith took possession of
another sofa placed opposite to hers and stretched himself thereupon at
all his length; foras he said afterwards‘I thought I could never do wrong
to copy the lady of the house’. As his dress at this period was precisely
that in which any ordinary herdsman attends cattle to the marketand as
his handsmoreoverbore most legible marks of a recent sheep-smearing
the lady of the house did not observe with perfect equanimity the novel
usage to which her chintz was exposed. The Shepherdhowever
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anecdoteand song a
?orded plentiful merriment to the more civilised
part of the company. As the liquor operatedhis familiarity increased and
strengthened; from ‘Mr Scott’ he advanced to ‘Shirra’and thence to
‘Scott’‘Walter’and ‘Wattie’––untilat supperhe fairly convulsed the
whole party by addressing Mrs Scott as ‘Charlotte’.
J. G. Lockhart
Life of Scott
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