TALE VII.
A Country Clergyman meeting a neighbour who never came to church, although an old fellow of about fifty, he gave him some reproof on that account, and asked him if he never read at home? No, replied the clown, I cannot read. I dare say, said the parson, you don't know who made you? Not I, in troth, cried the country man. A little boy coming by at the same time, Who made you child? said the parson, God Sir, said the boy.—Why look you there, quoth the Clergyman, are you not ashamed to hear a child of five or six years old, tell me who made him, when you that are so old a man, cannot!—Ah! said the country man, it is no wonder that he should remember; he was made but t'other day, and it is a long while measter since I was made.
FINIS.
GLASGOW,
Printed by J. & M. ROBERTSON, Saltmarket,
MDCCCII.
Transcriber's Notes:
Minor punctuation errors were fixed on pages 8 and 23. Unusual spellings have been retained throughout. The following typos were corrected—
Page 4, "plalms" changed to "psalms" in two instances. (...bawdy songs, and sing good [psalms].) (...they begun to sing [psalms] so loud...)
Page 9, "littse" changed to "little." (...where they jeer'd him not a [little];)
Page 10, "Gypses" changed to "Gypsies" once. (...there came a company of [Gypsies]...)
Page 14, "sooseness" changed to "looseness." (...having a [looseness] in his belly,)
Page 18, "it" changed to "is." (...the truth [is] this...)
Page 20, "thieves." changed to "thieves!" (Help! help! fire! thieves! [thieves!])