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Sages their solemn een may steek , And raise a philosophic reek , And , physically , causes seek , In clime and season ; But tell me _ Whisky 's _ name in Greek , I 'll tell the reason . BURNS . On the morning after the business of the playhouse had happened , I had to take my breakfast in my bed , a thing very uncommon to me , being generally up by cock-craw , except on Sunday mornings whiles , when each one , according to the bidding of the Fourth Commandment , has a license to do as he likes ; having a desperate sore head , and a squeamishness at the stomach , occasioned , I jealouse in a great measure , from what Mr Glen and me had discussed at Widow Grassie 's , in the shape of warm toddy , over our cracks concerning what is called the agricultural and manufacturing interests . So our wife , poor body , put a thimbleful of brandy , Thomas Mixem 's real , into my first cup of tea , which had a wonderful virtue in putting all things to rights ; so that I was up and had shaped a pair of lady 's corsets , an article in which I sometimes dealt , before ten o'clock , though , the morning being rather cold , I did not dispense with my Kilmarnock . At eleven in the forenoon , or thereabouts , maybe five minutes before or after , but no matter , in comes my crony Maister Glen , rather dazed-like about the een ; and with a large piece of white sticking-plaister , about half a nail wide , across one of his cheeks , and over the bridge of his nose ; giving him a wauf , outlandish , and rather blackguard sort of appearance ; so that I was a thought uneasy at what neighbours might surmise concerning our intimacy ; but the honest man accounted for the thing in a very feasible manner , from the falling down on that side of his head of one of the brass candlesticks , while he was lying on his broadside before one of the furms in the stramash . His purpose of calling was to tell me , that he could not leave the town without looking in upon me to bid me farewell ; more betoken , as he intended sending in his son Mungo by the carrier for trial , to see how the line of life pleased him , and how I thought he would answer -- a thing which I was glad came from his side of the house , being likely to be in the upshot the best for both parties . Yet I thought he would find our way of doing so canny and comfortable , that it was not very likely he could ever start objections ; and I must confess , that I looked forward with no small degree of pride , seeing the probability of my soon having the son of a Lammermoor farmer sitting crosslegged , cheek for jowl with me on the board , and bound to serve me at all lawful times , by night and day , by a regular indenture of five years .