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 to bring the Bible atween us.” The beggar agreed, and mounted John accordingly, after he had wrapped himself in his grey plaid. When they came within view of the thief, John would very fain have turned, but the beggar spurned him on, until they came within a very short distance of him, when he, supposing it to be his comrade coming with a sheep on his back, exclaimed, “Is he a fat ane?” John, whose heart was quaking before, on hearing this question put to him, could no longer resist his inclination to turn; he threw the old man off his back, saying, “Be he fat or be he lean, there he is to ye,” and run what he was able. The medicant, finding that he was thus left to his own resources to appease the devil as he could, mustered all his strength; and, strange to tell, his legs that had refused to perform their office for many a long year before, were suddenly strengthened; he soon went past John, regained the manse before him, and was never lame after.

Some time ago, the frolics of the honourable Mr———, made a great noise in the newspapers. The following records one of the most whimsical acts of folly:———

One morning, after having danced all night at an assembly, he sauntered out with the Marquis of———leaning over his arm; and in crossing St. Andrew’s square, found an old rustic standing before the door of Dumbreck’s Hotel, with his cart full of butter-milk barrels. He quickly concerted with the Marquis, a scheme of fun, whereby the