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and schoolmaster of the parish; but the King, having no objection to the society of two such respectable persons, did not scruple to enter and seat himself at the same table. When some time, and a good deal of liquor, had been spent, the reckoning was called; and, as James had not been present during above a third of the whole sederunt, the schoolmaster proposed that one should pay a smaller share accordingly. But this way of reasoning did not satisfy the clergy- man; who vociferated that it had been the custom of Markinch, from time immemorial, to                 say HIGGLETY PIGGLETY, without regard to the quantity of liquor which each individual might have drunk. The schoolmaster attempted to                 convince his boon companion of the selfishness and absurdity of this system, and particularly asserted the impropriety of carrying it into practice in the present case, inasmuch as the person in question was a stranger, and should be treated with hospitality instead of injustice. 'No, no, Sir!" bawled the priest, higglety                 pigglety's the word in Markinch, and will be as                  lang as I hae ony thing to do wi't' -- Weel,                  weel," said the King, who had not yet spoken, higglety pigglety be't;' laying down his whole share of the reckoning. His Majesty immedi- tely after took measures to put the schoolmaster and minister of Markinch upon an equal footing as to salary, at once to reward the generosity of                 the former, and to punish the sordidness of the matter. It is further said, that the salaries of                 these two parochial dignitaries continued nearly