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[169] Laudanum and calomel.
[170] Read from the same book.
[171] Sorely kept under by the turkey-cock.
[172] Close the doors. The old woman was lying in a "box-bed." See _Life
of Robert Chambers_, p. 12.
[173] Empty pocket.
[174] A cough.
[175] Shrivelled.
[176] Confound.
[177] Empty.
[178] It was of this minister, Mr. Thom of Govan, that Sir Walter Scott
remarked "that he had demolished all his own chances of a Glasgow
benefice, by preaching before the town council from a text in Hosea,
'Ephraim's drink is sour.'"
[179] Empty.
[180] Basket for fish.
[181] Well advanced.
[182] Wearied.
[183] I have abundant evidence to prove that a similar answer to that
which Dr. Alexander records to have been made to Mr. Gillespie has been
given on similar occasions by others.
[184] Oats heavy in bulk.
[185] This Marquis of Lothian was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland
at the battle of Culloden, who sullied his character as a soldier and a
nobleman by the cruelties which he exercised on the vanquished.
[186] Sir H. Moncreiff's _Life of Dr. J. Erskine_.
[187] Extraordinary.
[188] In Scotland it is usual to term the law-agent or man of business
of any person his "doer."
[189] And yet, even as we write, weepers seem to be passing into
reminiscence.
[190] This expression was adopted apparently in ridicule of the French
applying the word "Madame" to a cow.
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