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  • He's a red-wad deevil, man --- He's like Giles Heathertap's auld boar; --- ye need but shake a clout at him to make him turn and gore.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • He's a red-wad deevil, man -- He's like Giles Heathertap's auld boar; -- ye need but shake a clout at him to make him turn and gore.

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • He's a red-wad deevil, man -- He's like Giles Heathertap's auld boar; -- ye need but shake a clout at him to make him turn and gore.

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • --- to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wad Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying --- uh! uh!

    Rob Roy 1887

  • -- to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wad Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying -- uh! uh!

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • -- to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wad Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying -- uh! uh!

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

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