"Weel, if ye dinna ken that, said the resolute farmer, ye ken this; ye ken yere whiles obliged to be up our water in the way o your business; now, if ye let me stay quietly here the night wi the Captain, Ise pay ye double fees for the room; and if ye say no, ye shall hae the best sark-fu o sair banes that ever ye had in your life, the first time ye set a foot by Liddel-moat!"