'Don't go away, Mary,' said the black-eyed man. 'Let me alone, imperence,' said the young lady.

The python is a nonvenomous snake.

He has certainly a strange way of expressing himself ; but the reader may often discover amidst Hibernianisms, obscurity , and bombast , much acute remark , and judicious reflection

A few sentences will suffice to indicate an idea of it. The pervading characteristic of all our Scottish songs seems to be that hard-grained, and not unfrequently sarcastic sagacity, which is the national mark, go where you will.