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George owned he said ſo, but would refer to the bell, whether he was guilty or not. The Priests, tho' unwilling, were obliged to comply. George touched the Bell, repeating as before. The Pope is fallible and cannot pardon sin; and, moreover, added the Pope and Popish Clergy are impostors and thereupon touched the bell, referring to it for the truth. But the bell not rent priests were disgraced as impostors, and he was honourable acquitted, and the bell was laid aside.

2. George desired a member of the College of St. Andrews, to lend him a book the other told him, that he could not possiply spare it out of his chamber; but if he pleased, he might come there and read all the day long. Some time after, the gentleman sends to George to borrow his bellows but he sent him word, he could not possibly spare them out of his chamber; but, that, if he pleased, he might come there and blow all day if he would.

3 A Scholar, at the Grammar School of St. Andrews, coming into a room where his master had laid down a basket of fine cherries for his own eating, the waggish box shakes it up, and cried aloud, I publish the between these cherries and my mouth of any one know a just cause or impending