Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

THE ODONTIST. 213
and whatever one may carelessly think, the Public will view it
in no other light. Certainly a man must be callous indeed to
put up with such freedoms, to say no more of it, for this cannot
be allowed. I earnestly beg you not to delay a serious survey
of the consequences to yourself, as well as to me and my friends
who are exceedingly hurt. , Surely strangers think me a poor
silly chap, and I am afraid others think so likewise, otherways
this trouble might have been spared.
Ungrateful Odontist I Lockhart
had just put his
own delightful "Lament for Captain Paton" into his
mouth, and filled him with merry talk. He was like
the Shepherd, who never forgave (yet was always for-
giving) the brotherhood for attributing all their most
poetical ideas to him. But as we hear no more of
Scott's remonstrances, perhaps he was finally per-
suaded, as Mrs Gordon says, to accept all the fine
things put into his mouth.
This personage was the supposed author of the
merry and vigorous verses in which fifty rhymes are
found for the cheerful name of Blackwood which con-
cludes every stanza. " Our celebrated Jurist long
ago," says this poet, " coined twenty rhymes in praise
of Mr Packwood," but he pledges himself to a worthier
name, and a more *' sounding stanza."
III.
Long ruled a Tyrant Fiend the Northern sky,
Impious and cruel, whom no hand attack would
Till pitying heaven a stern Avenger, high
And bold, upreared in thee, illustrious Blackwood !
IV.
No cautious war thy hand would deign to wage.
At once thy spunck the fortress storm and sack would,
"With sheer close thrust the tyrant to engage.
Alone might suit the energy of Blackwood.
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