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 pool; and strange as it may appear, not a cloot was cut, nor a bone broken. But highland cattle have much practice in swimming, while being floated from one island to another, and we suspect few Galloways would have escaped drowning if placed in precisely the same circumstances.

Saturday, a scene of rather a novel character was witnessed in the West end of the New Town, which amply demonstrates the lamentable proneness of most people to follow a multitude in doing evil. A harmless rabbit, domiciled in some of the back courts in Glenfinlas street, had just stepped out from her burrow to to take a peep at the magnificent octagons, circusses, and crescents, now being erected in Lord Moray's parks—expecting, it may be supposed, nothing else but civil treatment in so refined a neighbourhood. Hard by, however, were a number of masons at work, one of whom, on seeing puss, unthinkingly bawled out, "Halloo?" and, clapping his hands—! "What s't?" cried the hewers of stone, and brandishing their mallets—! "What is't?" [sic] cried the neighbouring builder, and, flourishing their trowels—! "What is't cried the astonished joiners, and, shouldering their hatchets—! "Teil tam!" exclaimed Donald the caddie, and