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Yesterday, nae farther gane, just as we were mounted, and about to ride forth, in rushed a thorough Edinburgh gutterblood a ragged rascal, every dud upon whose back was bidding good-day to the other, with a coat and hat that would have served a pease-bogle, and without havings or reverence, thrusts into our hands, like a sturdy beggar, some Supplication about debts owing by our gracious mother, and siclike trash; whereat the horse spangs on end, and, but for our admirable sitting, wherein we have been thought to excel maist sovereign princes, as well as subjects, in Europe, I promise you we would have been laid endlang on the causeway."
"He's but a dumb dog that," observed the Deacon; "I have heard that he never could preach five words of a sermon endlang, for as lang as he has been licensed." "Weel, but," said the precentor, waving his hand, as if eager to retrieve the command of the discourse, he waited on the young Laird by night and day.
So ye see, my friends, that this soothsayer having prognosticated evil to the boy, his father engaged a godly minister to be with him morn and night. 'Ay, that was him they ca'd Dominie Sampson, said the postilion. 'He's but a dumb dog that, observed the Deacon; 'I have heard that he never could preach five words of a sermon endlang, for as lang as he has been licensed.
"Aha!" said the king, laughing, for he possessed, as a useful attribute of his situation, a tenacious memory, which recollected every one with whom he was brought into casual contact, "Ye are the self-same traitor who had weelnigh coupit us endlang on the causey of our ain courtyard? but we stuck by our mare. Equam memento rebus in arduis servare.
So ye see, my friends, that this soothsayer having prognosticated evil to the boy, his father engaged a godly minister to be with him morn and night. 'Ay, that was him they ca'd Dominie Sampson, said the postilion. 'He's but a dumb dog that, observed the Deacon; 'I have heard that he never could preach five words of a sermon endlang, for as lang as he has been licensed.
So ye see, my friends, that this soothsayer having prognosticated evil to the boy, his father engaged a godly minister to be with him morn and night. 'Ay, that was him they ca'd Dominie Sampson, said the postilion. 'He's but a dumb dog that, observed the Deacon; 'I have heard that he never could preach five words of a sermon endlang, for as lang as he has been licensed.
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