`` Well , '' said I , `` what followed ? '' Alan laid down his pipe , which he had long since suffered to go out , and set his two hands upon his knees . `` Ay , '' said he , `` ye 'll never guess that ! For these same Stewarts , and Maccolls , and Macrobs -LRB- that had two rents to pay , one to King George by stark force , and one to Ardshiel by natural kindness -RRB- offered him a better price than any Campbell in all broad Scotland ; and far he sent seeking them -- as far as to the sides of Clyde and the cross of Edinburgh -- seeking , and fleeching , and begging them to come , where there was a Stewart to be starved and a red-headed hound of a Campbell to be pleasured ! '' `` 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 . ''
`` XXXXX '' said he , `` it 's well seen it was a Campbell taught ye !
Ardshiel Ay Christianity Clyde David Edinburgh Maccolls Macrobs Scotland Stewarts