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Thus the night passed in decent temperance and a happy decorum; insomuch,

that the elders when they went away, either by the influence of the

toddy-bowl, or the Doctor's funny stories about the Englishers, declared

that he was an excellent acy

At supper, the party, besides the le, consisted of

the two Irvine ladies, and Mr Snodgrass Miss Becky Glibbans came in

when it was about half over, to express her ht, "Mr Craig's bairn having taken an ill turn"

The truth, however, was, that the worthy elder had been rendered somewhat

tozy by the minister's toddy, and wanted an opportunity to inform the old

lady of the joke that had been played upon hi her

his jo, and to see how she would relish it So by a little address Miss

Becky was sent out of the ith the excuse we have noticed; at the

saht was rather sharp, it is not to be supposed that

she would have been the bearer of any suchsupper the conversation was very lively Many "pickant jokes," as