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Rh tailed coat into the kitchen press, clapped him doon on a basket o' wet claes wi’ a guid sowse, and snibbed the door.

I brewed my faither an extra strong gless o’ toddy that nicht, and Betty packed the tyler oot when the hoose was quate. I needna say that wis the first and last o’ Henry Hernbane’s approaches to me. His idle habits had led him into debt everywhere; soon efter that his creditors cam’ upon him, and his effects were sold, but my faither, having a first claim by virtue o’ the bond, the property fell to him.