Highland garb; and as he went about with this great roll on his
shoulder, and his little legs curving like a pair of parentheses below
his kilt, he was an odd figure to behold. He was like little David
shouldering the spear of Goliath, which was "like unto a weaver's
beam."

Whenever sheep-shearing was over, Campbell used to set out for
Edinburgh to attend to his lawsuit. At the inns he paid double for all
his meals and his night's lodgings, telling the landlords to keep it in
mind until his return, so that he might come back that way at free
cost; for he knew, he said, that he would spend all his money among the
lawyers at Edinburgh, so he thought it best to secure a retreat home
again.

On one of his visits he called upon his lawyer, but was told he was not
at home, but his lady was. "It's just the same thing," said little
Campbell. On being shown into the parlor, he unrolled his map, stated
his case at full length, and, having gone through with his story, gave
her the customary fee. She would have declined it, but he insisted on
her taking it. "I ha' had just as much pleasure," said he, "in telling
the whole tale to you, as I should have had in telling it to your
husband, and I believe full as much profit."

The last time he saw Scott, he told him he believed he and the laird
were near a settlement, as they agreed to within a few miles of the
boundary. If I recollect right, Scott added that he advised the little
man to consign his cause and his map to the care of "Slow Willie
Mowbray," of tedious memory, an Edinburgh worthy, much employed by the
country people, for he tired out everybody in office by repeated visits
and drawling, endless prolixity, and gained every suit by dint of