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Updated: May 4, 2025
The first model lodging-houses established in Glasgow, about 25 years ago, owe their existence to the efforts of Mr. Watson, assisted by ex-Provost Blackie, who, with a number of other directors, have since carried on these establishments, very much to the benefit of the community at large.
He knows the letters and the import of them!" "They are to that effect," the Archdeacon answered, drumming on the table with his fingers and speaking somewhat sullenly. "I was in the Chancellery, and I saw them. They are duplicates of those sent to Bordeaux." "Then the preparations he has made must be against the Huguenots," Lescot, the ex-Provost, said with a sigh of relief.
"It's alwayth the numskull hath the most conceit," said the Deacon. "And yet there must be something in him too, to get that prize," mused the ex-Provost. "A little ability's a dangerous thing," said Johnny Coe, who could think at times. "To be safe you should be a genius winged and flying, or a crawling thing that never leaves the earth. It's the half-and-half that hell gapes for.
Then let every true Catholic tie a white band on his arm and put a white cross in his cap, and begin the vengeance of God." Finding upon inquiry that Le Charron, the provost of the merchants, was too weak and tender-hearted for the work before him, the Duke suggested that the municipality should temporarily confer his power on the ex-provost Marcel, a man of very different stamp.
He glanced up at her with comic shrewdness from where he sat on his hunkers for fine he saw through her and "Ou ay," said he, "ye great muckle fat hotch o' a dacent bodie, ye I'll gang in and have a dish o' tea wi' ye." And away went the fine fuddled fellow. "She's a wise woman that," said the ex-Provost, looking after them. "She kenned no to flyte, and he went like a lamb."
"Your ain," said the baker. 'Dim it! said he. I like a man that says 'Dahm't." "Ay; but then, you thee, you're an artitht in wordth," said the Deacon. "Ye're an artist in spite," said the baker. "Ah, well," said the ex-Provost, "Burns proved to be wrang in the end o't, and you'll maybe be the same.
According to other reports, the first opposition of the provost of tradesmen, Le Charron, was not without effect; it was not till the next day that he let the orders he had received take their course; and it was necessary to apply to his predecessor in his office, the ex-provost Marcel, a creature of the queen-mother's, to set in motion the turbulent and the fanatical amongst the populace, "which it never does to 'blood, for it is afterwards more savage than is desirable."
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