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 fury about his infidelity towards her. The young rogue laughed heartily at the success of his fraud, and turning to his companions, said to them, "I think I've gi'en her a bane to pike!"

The late Rev. Mr.———, of D———, Aberdeenshire was fond of his friend and a bottle; he sacrificed so often and so freely to the jolly god, that the presbytery could no longer overlook such proceedings, and summoned him before them to answer for his conduct.- One of the elders, and constant companion in his social hours, was cited as a witness against him. "Well, John (says one of the presbytery to the elder) did you ever see the Rev. Mr. C——— the worse of drink?" "Weel a wyte no; I've mony a time seen him the better o't, but I never saw him the war o't." "But did you never see him drunk?" "That's what I'll ne'er see, for before he be half slockened, I'm aye blind fu'."