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14 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 houſe, and for one article having eggs, the ſerver of the table laid a cloth on