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23 eggs he got from him ſuch a time? The landlord seeing him now rich, gave him a bill of ſeveral pounds; telling him, as his reaſon for ſo extra- vagant a charge, that theſe eggs, had they been hatched, would have been chickens; and theſe laying more eggs, would have been more chick- kens: and ſo on, multiplying the eggs and their product, till ſuch time as their value amounted to the ſum charged. The man refuſing to comply with his demand, was charged before a judge. He then made his caſe known to George, his countryman, who promiſed to appear in the hour of cauſe; which he accordingly did, all in a ſwear, with a great baſket of boil'd peaſe ? Which ap- arance ſurpriſed the judge; who aſked him that he meant by theſe boiled peaſe? ſays George, am going to ſow them. When will they grow? hid the judge, They will grow, ſaid George, ben ſodden eggs grow chickens. Which an- ſwer convinced the judge of the extravagance the innkeeper's demand, and the Scotsman as afluixed for twopence halfpenny.

George being now far advanced in years, and ring weary of the great fatigue and folly of the urt faſhions, a ſhort time before his death, he ad a great deſire to viſit his native country, & e place of his nativity; Therefore he petition- the king for permiſſion to do ſo, which was anted. So he ſet out for Scotland, and went the pariſh of Buchanan, in Dunbartonſhire, cre he viſited all his relations and friends.-- It George ſtaying longer from Court than the le allowed, the king ſent him ſereral meſſages