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The old jail, the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, taken down in 1817. Sir Walter Scott has a novel so called.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.