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Jock plagues fo'k for pieces as ye do.".      "Deed," said they with some shrewdness,       Jock seeks pieces when he's at hame as       weel as we do." "Nonsense!” said the girl      I'll refer't to Jock himsel' then. Jock, said       she turning toward the neuk,"I'll wager, ye dinna seek pieces at hame as they do, "Not I,"said Jock promptly, "when I grow      hungry. I tak my granny's head plaid and       mak' wings o't and flee up to heav'n and get       bread an' milk.”  This, most unhapply for       Jock, produced an instantaneous peal of       laughter, which brought the minister down       stairs. Finding Jock in the peat neuk he       was at no loss to discover the origo mali,       and turning to the maid with some sever-       ity of aspect, What,” said, he,"has been the matter?" "Matter, sir, truly it's just that gomeril Jock there, wi' his nonsense. She then related Jock's remark. The good man was shocked at such profanity, and caşting an eye of displeasure towards the neuk where Jock sat--we may be sure in no enviable condition -"Sirrah!', sail      he, "I forbade ye this house." Jock made       no reply. "But ye have not only offended me, ye have insulted the Almighty By' this time he had begun to look round for an      instrument of castigation; but finding no       implement of greater elasticity than the