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it a matter of difficulty to reconcile him to a life of passive obedience, and bodily re- straint. Fortunately for Jock, his powers of invention were known so far to surpass those of execution--in other words, his head had so far the advantage of his hands, that there was not perhaps a master in all his neighbourhood who would have taken him for an apprentice. His school pranks, too, would have presented an insuperable barrier to an amicable arrangement in this way. There he had been the darling of his school-fellows, but the plague of his master. Naturally reckless of punish- ment, and apparently ignorant of the Pro- priety of restraint, it was impossible to per- suade, and not easy to deter him. The moral influence of a flogging, on most oc- cassions subsided with the smart, and his resolutions of propriety-- if indeed he form- ed any-- rarely out lived the first oppor- tunity that occurred to break them. Of futurity, if he had ever heard, he never thought, and his conduct seemed the result of an unconscious induction, which most people would consider as not less inconven- ient than erroneous -- that an immediata gratification ought not to be forborne out of any regard to the consequences. The gratification, it is probable, he would think