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 following the same career in which my fa ther obtained that mark of distinction."

"Mercifu' powers !" said the governante, my master wears it every Sunday."

"Sunday and Saturday," added old Milnwood, "whenever I put on my black velvet coat; and Wylie Mactrickit is partly of opinion it's a kind of heir-loom, that rather belangs to the head of the house than to the immediate descendant. It has three thousand links; I have counted them a thousand times. It's worth three hundred pounds sterling."

"That is more than I want, sir; if you choose to give me the third part of the money, and five links of the chain, it will amply serve my purpose, and the rest will be some slight atonement for the expence and trouble I have put you to."

"The laddie's in a creel!" exclaimed his uncle. "O, sirs, what will come o' the rigs o' Milnwood when I am dead and gane! He would fling the crown of Scotland awa, if he had it,"