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 quean or another, to gar me gang their gate instead o' my ain. There was first my mother," he continued, as he undressed and tumbled himself into bed"—than there was Leddy Margaret didna let me ca my soul my ain-than my mother and her quarrelled, and pu'ed me twa ways at ance; as if ilk ane had an end o' me, like Punch and the Deevil rugging about the Baker: at the fair—and now I hae gotten a wife," he murmured in continuation, as he stowed the blankets around his person, "and she's like to tak the guiding o' me a' thegither."

"And am na I the best guide ye ever had in a' your life?" said Jenny, as she closed the conversation by assuming her place beside her husband, and extinguishing the candle.

Leaving this couple to their repose, we have next to inform the reader, that, early on the next morning, two ladies on horseback, attended by their servants, arrived at the house of Fairy-knowe, whom, to Jenny's utter confusion, she instantly re-