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eight o'clock, he ſaw a vain-like young ſpark go running part him, which he never minded, but kept jogging on at his own leiſure; and as he was going into Linlithgow, about twelve o'clock, up comes the young ſpark, and asked the Sailor what o'clock it was? Why, ſays the Sailor, I ſee you have a watch, and I have none; what is it? Out he pulls his watch, ho! ſaid he, it's directly twelve; and what do you think, it was half an hour after ten or I came out of Edinburgh, I have aſked it in an hour and an half; it is pretty well tript, ſays the Sailor, but pray, Sir, what man of buſineſs are you? O! ſaid he, I am a watch-maker. I was thinking ſo, ſaid the Sailor, for you have made your watch to answer your feet, for theſe cannot anſwer a right watch, and I ſuppofe your tongue can't keep time with either of them; do you remember where you went paſt me this morning about eight o'clock? O yes, ſaid he; and off he went.

A certain old reverend prieſt being one night at ſupper in a gentleman's houſe, and for one article having eggs, the ſerver