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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: them? Our fathers did not do that, I trow?"
"I am no saying onything against revenging Hobbie's wrang, puir
chield; but we maun take the law wi' us in thae days, Simon,"
answered the more prudent elder.
"And besides," said another old man, "I dinna believe there's ane
now living that kens the lawful mode of following a fray across
the Border. Tam o' Whittram kend a' about it; but he died in the
hard winter."
"Ay," said a third, "he was at the great gathering, when they
chased as far as Thirlwall; it was the year after the fight of
Philiphaugh."
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