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 14 saw a vain-like young spark go running past 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 walked it in an hour and a 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 the watch answer your feet, for they cannot answer a right watch, and I suppose your tongue cannot keep time with either of them; do you remember where you passed me this morning about eight o’clock.?” “ O yes,” said he, and off went.

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