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 laity were reckoned powerful in the pulpit. After dinner, the worthy senior, in the pride of his heart, asked Mrs Buchan whether she ever had such a party in her house before. “Here sit I,” said he, “a placed minister of the kirk of Scotland, and here sit my three sons, each a placed minister of the same kirk.—Confess, Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house before.” The question was not premised by any invitation to sit down and take a glass of wine or the like, so Mrs B. answered dryly, "Indeed sir, I cannot just say that ever I had such a party in my house before, except once in the forty-five, when I had a Highland piper here, with his three sons, all Highland pipers; and de’il a spring they could play amang them.

One of the towns’ officers of Ayr, was struck severly by accident on the head by his wife.—After the fray was adjusted, the the wife said to her husband, H——, had I killed you, and I been hanged for it, woul you marry Kate M‘Lauchlan.

L him that would be safe avoid seven things:—wasps, spiders, hyaennas, crocodiles, effs, adders, and fine women!