`` Colin Campbell ? '' says Henderland . `` Putting his head in a bees ' byke ! '' `` He is to turn the tenants out by force , I hear ? '' said I. `` Yes , '' says he , `` but the business has gone back and forth , as folk say . First , James of the Glens rode to Edinburgh , and got some lawyer -LRB- a Stewart , nae doubt -- they all hing together like bats in a steeple -RRB- and had the proceedings stayed . And then Colin Campbell cam ' in again , and had the upper-hand before the Barons of Exchequer . And now they tell me the first of the tenants are to flit to-morrow . It 's to begin at Duror under James 's very windows , which doesnae seem wise by my humble way of it . '' `` Do you think they 'll fight ? '' I asked . `` Well , '' says Henderland , `` they 're disarmed -- or supposed to be -- for there 's still a good deal of cold iron lying by in quiet places . And then Colin Campbell has the sogers coming . But for all that , if I was his lady wife , I wouldnae be well pleased till I got him home again . They 're queer customers , the Appin Stewarts . '' I asked if they were worse than their neighbours . `` No they , '' said he . `` And that 's the worst part of it . For if Colin Roy can get his business done in Appin , he has it all to begin again in the next country , which they call Mamore , and which is one of the countries of the Camerons . He 's King 's Factor upon both , and from both he has to drive out the tenants ; and indeed , Mr. Balfour -LRB- to be open with ye -RRB- , it 's my belief that if he escapes the one lot , he 'll get his death by the other . ''
So we continued talking and walking the great part of the day ; until at last , Mr. Henderland after expressing his delight in my company , and satisfaction at meeting with a friend of Mr. XXXXX 's -LRB- `` whom , '' says he , `` I will make bold to call that sweet singer of our covenanted Zion '' -RRB- , proposed that I should make a short stage , and lie the night in his house a little beyond Kingairloch .
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