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Maggy demurred, and at length confessed she had only one. McDonald on this waxed very wroth, and exclaimed, "then I'll be hanged                   gif I marry ye,” and though witnesses were                    called to attest the ceremony, the loving pair re-                    traced their steps homewards, and literally got                    nothing but their labour for their pains. On                    reaching Maxwelltown, they agreed "not to let on but what they were married,” for the truth is, a party had been invited to tea, &c., and McDonald's friends to the number of thirty, spent the evening in a most joyous manner. As                   the glass circulated, the secret spunked out, but as Maggy spoke of "seeing what could be done                   the morn," McDonald agreed to accompany her home, amidst the cheers and congratulations of all present. The morn soon came, but with it                   come no £5 note, and like other hard-hearted swains, who court less for love than a comforta- ble dowery, McDonald flew off at a tangent, and left poor Maggy minus some ten or twelve shillings, and even more solitary than she had been before. Her whole disposable wealth, saving always the apples and the grumphies, had dwindled into £1, collected in bawbees from bairns; and she may truly say and sing too, "For the lack of gold he's left me,                        And of all that's dear bereft me."

23. WHEN the British ships under Lord Nelson were bearing down to attack the com- bined fleet of Trafalgar, the first-lieutenant of the Revenge, on going round to see that all hands