cornal

But he's of a respectit family, and the young lad himself is no to be despisid; howsomever, I never likit officir-men of any description, and yet the thing that makes me look down on the captain is all owing to the cornal, who was an officer of the native poors of India, where the pay must indeed have been extraordinar, for who ever heard either of a cornal, or any officer whomsoever, making

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

Ayr, he has got his five hundred pounds; and auld Nanse Sorrel, that was nurse to the cornal, she has got the first year of her twenty pounds a year; but we have gotten nothing, and I jealouse, that if things go on at this rate, there will be nothing to get; and what will become of us then, after all the trubble and outlay that we have been pot too by this coming to London?

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

a hundred thousand pounds in our regiments? no that I say the cornal has left so meikle to us.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809