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 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 he went.

A certain old reverend priest being one night at supper in a gentleman's ohusehouse [sic], and for one article having eggs, the server of the table laid a cloth on