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began to exhort him to peace and patience, telling him that marriages were made in heaven: "Ye're a baist liar, says John for I, was married in your ain kitchen, and a' the blackguards in the town was there. an it had a been a heaven they wadna win in, ye tellt me that matrimony was sic a happy state, but had ye gotten as money weel pay'd skins as I hae gotten, ye wad a kend what it is, ill chance on you sir; and out he goes, cursing like a madman, throwing stanes and breaking the Minister's windows, for which he was catcht and put twa hours in the stocks, and at last his lump of corruption came and rubbed his lugs, threw his nose, got him out, and drove him home before her, took a resolution never to set him about any business in time coming, but keep him on his loom.

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MISFORTUNE X.

Now she gave him no sleep all that night for scolding. John got up in the morning lang or day and left his Tormentor in bed, fell asleep upon his loom with the candle in