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 pious studies, Magopico obtained a competent knowledge of theology, and an old lady having employed him as her chaplain, he would exa mine the servants, and ask for their notes of the sermon, or let them know the difference between a preaching and a lecture; examine who was the first man, and what he was made of? about the serpent and satan, and the roaring lion, the meekest man, and the wisest man. He examined them on the ten commandments, but observed, at the same time, that they were all a dead letter. After some years spent in this useful vocation, Magopico obtained a kirk, more by the popular voice, and the lady’s influence, than by human learning, and carnal influence. He loved the lady’s chambermaid’s second cousin, and the chambermaid exerted her influence with the old lady. When he had been lodged twelve months in the manse, he found that it was not good for man to be alone, his bed was ill made, his parritch wanted salt, his shoes were not brushed, his shirts wanted buttons, and his black stockings were darned with white thread, his bed dirty, and swarming with fleas, his house in heaps upon heaps, and his meat crammed into the pouches and bellies of every hungry wooer that came after the servants; sheep heads could not be eaten for wool, his broth was singed, his bread mouldy, his