Soon after the battle of Preston, two Highlanders, in roaming through the south of Mid-Lothian, entered the farm-house of Swanston, near the Pentland Hills, where they found no one at home but an old woman. They immediately proceeded to search the house, and soon finding a web of coarse home-spun cloth, made no scruple to unroll and cut off as much as they thought would make a coat to each. The woman was exceedingly incenced at their rapacity, roared and cried, and even had the hardihood to invoke divine vengeance upon their heads. “Ye villains!” she cried, “ye’ll ha’e to account for this yet!”--“And when will we pe account for’t?” asked one of the Highlanders.--“At the last day, ye blackguards!” exclaimed the woman. “Ta last tay!” replied the Highlander: “Tat pe cood long credit--we’ll e’en pe tak a waistcoat too!” at the same time cutting off a few additional yards of the cloth. DEATH OF A WATCH. After the battle of Falkirk, in 1746, a Highlandman was observed extracting a gold watch from the fob of an English officer who had been killed. His comrade viewed him with a greedy eye; which the man taking notice of, said to him “Tamn you gapin’ creedy bitch, gang an’ shoot a shentleman for hersel’, an no envie me o’ my pit watch.” Next morning finding his watch motionless, and meeting his comrade, says to him, “Och! she no be care muckle about a watch, an’ you be like mine what will you gie me for her?” The other replied, “I be venture a kinny.”--“Weel then,” said the other, “Shust tak her, an’ welcome, for she be die yester night.” CAPTAIN SILK. In a party of ladies, on it being reported that a Captain Silk had arrived in town, they exclaimed, with one exception, ‘What a name for a soldier!’ ‘The fittest name in the world,’ replied a witty female, ‘for Silk never can be Worsted!’ [Illustration: FINIS.] FOOTNOTE: [A] This chivalrous defence is recorded, I find, in the life of Captain Paton, in the ‘Scots Worthies,’ Edin. edit. of A. D. 1812. This celebrated Officer was trained up to warfare in the army of Charles Gustavus, King of Sweden. This is a specimen of these heroic Whigs, who brought about the Revolution of A. D. 1688. AN ELEGY IN MEMORY OF THAT VALIANT CHAMPION, SIR R. GRIERSON, LATE LAIRD OF LAG, Who died Dec. 23d, 1733. WHEREIN THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS Commends many of his best friends, who were THE CHIEF MANAGERS, of the late Persecution. [Illustration] GLASGOW: PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS. AN ELEGY IN MEMORY OF SIR ROBERT GRIERSON, _OF LAG_.