The Round Table Club Or Conversations Scenical Scientific Author:James Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE QUEEN IN GLENFIDDOCH. Place Of Meeting -- Man in Black's House. Dinner begun, and Saunders entering the room. Captain -- Here he comes, as fresh as the heather he's left behind him -- health and happiness, hand in hand, in his honest face. Come here Saunders -- Heely, heely, till I shak' han's wi' the leddies, Captain. Foo are ye, Clarinda? I houp ye're a' weel, an' as happy as I wus ye. Captain -- Is your harvest begun, Saunders? What kind of weather have you got on the shoulders of Benrinnes 1 Saunders -- Hairst, man ! Wah, wah ! I hae o't as green's kail yet, an' the snaw lyin' amon't. Clarinda -- You are surely joking, Saunders. Are you serious when you say you have got snow among your corn ? Saunders -- Weel I wyte I 'm that. The shooers o' hail that fell i' the middle o' last ook meltit in an oor wi' you i' the Laich o' Moray -- a cozy howe ; but up wi' us the storm gied Benrinnes a fite nichtcap, an' fin I raise on Feersday mornin' the snaw was an inch deep a' throu' Morins and Glenrinnes, an' fat's waur, there's some o' the corn frostit, mair parteeklarly alang the coorse o' the Spey. Captain -- I know what frosted potatoes are, for I have had them at sea ; but how can corn be frosted, Saunders ? Saunders -- O, man, ye hae little wit! ye ken about shippies an steerin' them, an' pully-hoyin' fin ye're puin' up yer anchor, but ye ken naethin' aboot hill-fairmin', else ye' wad ken aboot frostit corn. Momus -- Explain the process to us, Saunders. Can ripe corn get frosted, or does the frost only affect the unripe corn ? Saunders -- Unripe corn, leddies and gentlemen, unripe corn -- c...« less