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 fearing to fa' to the ground like a wall built with unslacked mortar, or from sitting between twa stools."

"They chose an odd quarter," said Morton, "from which to expect freedom of conscience and purity of doctrine."

"O, dear sir! the natural day-spring rises in the east, but the spiritual day-spring may rise in the north, for what we blinded mortals ken."

"And Burley went to the north to seek it?"

"Truly ay, sir; and he saw Claver'se himsel, that they ca' Dundee now."

"The devil he did!" exclaimed Morton, "I would have sworn that meeting would have been the last of one of their lives."

"Na, na, sir; in troubled times, as I understand, there's sudden changes—Montgomery, and Ferguson, and mony ane mair that were King James's greatest facs, are, on his side now—Claver'se spake our friend fair, and sent him to consult with