To understand my story the better, gentlemen, you must yemaygine to yourselves a snug well-doing Nairnshire farmer's onstead, [1] situated in the parish of Auldearn, with a comfortable dwelling-house, of two low stories, accurately put down, so as mathematically to face the twelve o'clock line,--with its crow-steppit gables, small windows, little out-shot low addition behind, tall chimneys, and grey-slated roof--just such a house, to wit, as a man of his condition required in the middle of the last century--with two lines of strange-looking thatched or sod-covered stables, byres, barns, and other out-houses, projecting from its sides at right angles to its front, with divers out-riders, and …
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