`` Well , Alan , '' said I , `` that is a strange story , and a fine one , too . And Whig as I may be , I am glad the man was beaten . '' `` Him beaten ? '' echoed Alan . `` It 's little ye ken of Campbells , and less of the Red Fox . Him beaten ? No : nor will be , till his blood 's on the hillside ! But if the day comes , David man , that I can find time and leisure for a bit of hunting , there grows not enough heather in all Scotland to hide him from my vengeance ! '' `` Man Alan , '' said I , `` ye are neither very wise nor very Christian to blow off so many words of anger . They will do the man ye call the Fox no harm , and yourself no good . Tell me your tale plainly out . What did he next ? '' `` And that 's a good observe , David , '' said Alan . `` Troth and indeed , they will do him no harm ; the more 's the pity ! And barring that about Christianity -LRB- of which my opinion is quite otherwise , or I would be nae Christian -RRB- , I am much of your mind . '' `` Opinion here or opinion there , '' said I , `` it 's a kent thing that Christianity forbids revenge . '' `` Ay '' said he , `` it 's well seen it was a Campbell taught ye ! It would be a convenient world for them and their sort , if there was no such a thing as a lad and a gun behind a heather bush ! But that 's nothing to the point . This is what he did . ''
`` XXXXX '' said I , `` come to that . ''
Alan Ay Campbell Christian David Fox Scotland Troth Whig bush