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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: accounted it derogatory to his dignity to stir without a retinue
of six or seven persons. To every new annunciation, Angus
M'Aulay answered by naming some place of accommodation,--the
stables, the loft, the cow-house, the sheds, every domestic
office, were destined for the night to some hospitable purpose or
other. At length the arrival of M'Dougal of Lorn, after all his
means of accommodation were exhausted, reduced him to some
perplexity. "What the devil is to be done, Donald?" said he;
"the great barn would hold fifty more, if they would lie heads
and thraws; but there would be drawn dirks amang them which
should lie upper-most, and so we should have bloody puddings
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