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been soht have been oon officers are, if she had got the doited

Doctor, her father, to publish the intended e in the papers

beforehand"

"Haud that condu with

haste as the door opened, and Mrs Glibbans entered "Becky, will you

never devai' your backbiting I wonder frae who"

The authority of her parent's tongue silenced Miss Becky, and Mrs

Glibbans having seated herself, continued,--"Is it your opinion, Mr

Snodgrass, that this ood, contracted, as I am told it

is mentioned in the papers to hae been, at the horns of the altar of

Episcopalian apostacy?"

"I can set you right as to that," said Miss Isabella "Rachelfrom the church, the Doctor hi to the Presbyterian usage" "I alad indeed," said Mrs Glibbans "It would have been a

judgle's--than whoh

there may be abler, there is not a sounder man in a' the West of

Scotland--been sacrificed to Moloch, like the victims of prelatic

idolatry"