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had it not been for the accidental intrusion of a plough-boy, who at the moment slipt softly into the said malt-house, and discovered, that though two voices had issued from the house, there was but one person within.

Clever hussy! she deserved a husband for the trick.

And she should have had one suited to her merits, could I have transferred to her a smart-looking fellow, who had eloped with the prettiest girl in the parish, on the evening of her wedding-day, just to take her out of his friend the bridegroom's hands, as he gallantly stated it.

I think he was mated very suitably with the woman he eloped with. The bridegroom was well quit of her; she was not worth contending for.

Yes; but it was not for her they contended. No, truly; the matter to be decided was, whether the man who had lost the bride, or the man who had got her, should pay the expenses of the wedding dinner.

Oh, the worldly creatures!