You mean your own good old unregular mode?
Yes; I have been both in the courts of Edinburgh and Dublin, and my marriages have always been held legal.
What form of words do you use?
Why, you come before me, and say—
Mr. Scarlett.—No, I will not, for I do not want to be married; but suppose a man did who called for your services, what is he to do?
Why, it is I that do it. Surely I ask them, before two witnesses, do you take one and other for man and wife, and they say they do, and I then declare them to be man and wife for ever more, and so and so, in the Scotch way you observe.
The Court.—Mr. Attorney, (addressing Mr. Scarlett, who is attorney-general for the county palatine,) is it by a fellow like this, that you mean to prove the custom of the law of Scotland as to valid marriage?
Here the blacksmith’s examination terminated.