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here to the langsettle." Jock took his seat    beside the gndeman, and kept all in good     humour till supper time. When supper     was ended, the gudeman reminded him of     his promise. Jock was no way averse--     he sung, and read, and prayed. To the as-     tonishment of every one who heard him,     he gave the gudeman's prayer word, for     word though he had not heard it for a     twelvemonth before. "Now," said he, when     he had finished, "I got it here, an' I hae left it here, an' if it's no' a gude ane, gudeman, it's ye'r ain fa't."

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COFFEE AND COFFEE-HOUSES.

The native country of the coffee plant is    supposed to be Persia; bat this circum- stance, as well as the era and the mode of    the introduction of the use of coffee, rests on very doubtful authority. It is certain, however, that about the middle of the fif- teenth century, it was generally drunk in    Arabia, and that in the following century, the pilgrims who returned from Mecca and Medina, introduced and spread its