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however, Will happened not to be of that opinion, and true to his integrity, bawled out with all his might in the midst of the sermon, "No, no, by my faith it's no pay't, we have had just a'e half-mutchkin, an' twa bottles o' ale and there's no a fardin o't pay't."

GRAVE-DIGGER OF SORN.

The Grave-digger of Sorn, Ayrshire, was as selfish and as mean a sinner as ever handled mattock, or carried mortcloth. He was a very quarrelsome and discontented old man, with a voice like the whistle of the wind thro' a key-hole. On a bleak Sunday afternoon in the country, an acquaintance from a neighbouring parish accosted him one day, and asked how the world was moving with him, "Oh, very puirly, sir, very puirly indeed," was the answer, "the yard has done naething ava for us this summer, if ye liko to believo me, I havna buried a lovin' soul this sax weeks.

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