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Ay, ay! it has! it has!

Silence, I say!—(To .) Have the goodness to answer, Madam: has the rag been preserved?

It has, Sir; but it is no rag, I assure you.

As good silk, your honour, as ever came frae the Luckenbooths of Edinburgh.

Are not witches always old and poor? The devil must have helped this one to a new gown, at least; and that is more than we have ever heard of his doing to any of them before.

We have read of witches who have been neither old nor poor.

Ha! is there warrantry, from sober sensible books, for such a notion? I am no great scholar on such points: it may be so.—But here comes the minister: his better learning will assist us.

I thank you, my reverend Sir, for obeying my