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 before you can ride twice the length of your horse, nay, if I have a mind to go to London, or Jerusalem, or to the moon, if you please, I can perform all these journeys equally soon, for it costs me nothing but a thought or wish; for this body is as fleet as your thought, for in the moment of time you can turn your thoughts on Rome, I can go there in person; and as for my horse, he is much like myself for he is Andrew Johnston, my tenant, who died forty eight hours before me.

OGIL. So it seems when Andrew Johnston inclines to ride, you must serve him in the quality of an horse, as he does you now.

COOL. You are mistaken.

OGIL. I thought that all distinctions between mistresses and maids, lairds and tenants, had been done away at death.

COOL. True it is, but you do not take up the matter.

OGIL. This is one of the questions you won’t answer.

COOL. You are mistaken, for that question I can answer and after you may understand it.

OGIL. Well, then, Cool, have you never yet appeared before God, nor received any sentence from him as a Judge.

COOL. Never yet.

OGIL. I know you was a scholar Cool, and ’tis generally believed that there is a private judgment, besides the general at the great day: the former immediately after death,———Upon this he interrupted me, arguing,