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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: father to the wilds of Ross and the impenetrable deserts of Y Mac
Y Mhor. Tush, man! my limbs, old as they are, will bear me as
far as your young feet can trace the way."
"Alas, mother," said the young man, with a faltering accent, "but
to cross the sea--"
"The sea! who am I that I should fear the sea? Have I never
been in a birling in my life--never known the Sound of Mull, the
Isles of Treshornish, and the rough rocks of Harris?"
"Alas, mother, I go far--far from all of these. I am enlisted in
one of the new regiments, and we go against the French in
America."
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