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 23 company were about starting to meet the bride, stalked majestically into the middle of the room, with glass in hand, and the greybeard under his arm, and filling a bumper, handed it to the nearest person, who hurriedly swallowed it, but instantly shaking his head, gravely remarked, that it was "shurely some o' the new-fangled mixture graith." Being in too great haste to give the observation that attention it meritod, the second was instantly filled and tasted; but how aghast did the company look when the recipient roared out in a voice of horror, “L-d, Jock, that's uily!" Aud "uily" it was. The bridegroom. on going to St. Johnston, had taken the wrong jar, and having requested the shopman to fill that wi' the auld thing," the wary functionary, to catch the plain meaning, smelled the jar, and implemented the order accordingly. Although the mistake was felt severely at the time, we are happy to say that a good horse speedily bore the needful from a neighbouring public-house, and everything afterwards went on with a spirit which, instead of being damped, appeared to have been augmented by the mischance.

SCOTCH ANECDOTE. An anxious Scotch mother was taking leave of her son on his departure for England, and giving him all good advice. “My dear Sauny, my ainly son, gang south and get all the siller from the southerns, take every thing you can, but the English are a braw boxing people, and take care of them Sauny. My dear son Sauny, never fight a bald man, for you cannot catch hold of him by the hair of his head."