text:  Now-a-days he was always discovering some objection to the Squire's appointments: one usher it seemed spoke too low another too loud one used an ear-trumpet another a pair of grass-green spectacles; one had no sufficient gifts for flogging; another flogged either too high or too low--(for Jack was like the deserter there was no pleasing him as to the mode of conducting the operation;) and finally another was rejected because he was unacquainted with the vernacular of Ossian--to the great injury and damage as was alleged of two Highland chairmen who at an advanced period of life were completing their education in the school in question