Answers to Questions on Scott's Novels
1. Old Mortality ; making cavalry kettle-drums to be played at night.-2. Louis XI. to Charles of Burgundy in Quentin Durward.-3. Dandie Dinmont's terriers in Guy Mannering.
4. Dugald Dalgetty, on being rescued by the Children of the Mist who were so armed. Legend of Montrose.-5. (a) A licensed Scottish beggar so attired. Antiquary ; (b) an instrument of torture. Old Mortality ; (c) Iron cradles affixed to a castle-wall and containing a sentry. Q. Durward.-6. Dania Latimer in Redgauntlet.-7. (a) A fish-wife to Jonathan Oldbuck ; (b) Edie Ochiltree to Oldbuck. Antiquary. On the discovery of a stone on which Oldbuck imagined he could read a Roman inscription. —8. Dominie Sampson in Guy Mannering.-9. Wamba the Jester, Isaac the Jew, Ivanhoe.-10. The apothecary in The Fair Maid; the Puritan libertine in Woodstock ; The Templar in Iran- hoe.—ll. The Fair Maid of Perth.-12. The Bride of Lammer. moor.-13. (a) Peveril of the Peak ; (b) The Surgeon's Daughter for to taste).
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