Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-14

tiers, the care Of his health and his affairs
being strangely jumbIed in head which
Was never one OF the ciearest.
These are ,air times wi me, gentlemen
and neishbors anaist as i'll as at the aueblv
nine. when was rabbed by the colleges.
ners. They mislook me mucklc--ihcy
cad me parist, but there was never =
papist biz abou! me, minister. Jock. Ven
take warling--its debt we mann a nav
and there stands Nichil Noyii, that will ,e.Ii
We was never guide at paying debts in nv
life. Mr.. Novit yell 10 forget 10 draw The
annual rent that's due on the yerl's bend
II pay debt to other folk, think they SUI
pay il to me---;lat's equals aquals-JocE
VI her ye hae naething else 10 do, We NAV
be aye sticking in tree; ii will be grow
ing, Jock, when ye're sleeping. Ely iarber
,aald me sac forty years sin, but | nee
fand tine Ia mind him.--Jock, ne or drink
brandy in tho morning. il files the stomach
sair; gen ye take 4 mornings draught. Iet
i be aqua mirabilis; Jenny there makes il
wecl.-Doctor, my breath is growing AZ
scant as broken winded piper's, when he
has played our-and-,wenty hours ut pen.
ny wedding. Jenny put the cod aneath nv
heah---but its needless! Mass John could
We think Drafting over some Bit sbort
prayer, it would GO me GUIDE maybe. and
keep some queer thoughts out my head
Say something, man!
cannot use prayer like rat-rhyne,'
answered the honest clergyman; and Il
you would have your soul redeemed like
prey from the fowler, Laird, you must shew
RE your state OF mind
An shouldna ye ken that without nv
telling YOU answered tue patient. VIVA,
hae been paying stipend and tend par.
sonage and vicarage for, ever sin the augh.
ty-nine, an | Gamma get spell Of PRAYER
fort, the only time ever asked for aue in
my life ?-Gang AVA wi your Whipee,y,
il that's "a ye can do; auld curate KiI,,
stoup wad hac read half the Prayer Book
10 me by this time.-Awa wye! Doctor,
let's see If ye can do ony thing better Tor
me.
The Doctor who had obtained some
information in the meanwhile from the
housekeeper on the state OF his complaints,
assured him the medical art could not pro-
long his life many hours.
Did We come here Tor naething but 10
tell me that We Gamma help me al the pinch!
Out wi them Jenpy-oui O. The house and
Jock, my curse, and the curse o Cromwell
go Wye, il We gle them either fee or boun.
tith, or sac muckie as black pair O che.
verous.'
The clergyman and doctor made a
speedy retreat out OF tue apartment. while
Dumbiedikes fell into one of those trans
ports of violent and profane language,
which had procured him the surname OF
Damn-me- dikes.--' Bring me the brandy
bottle. Jenny, ye D. he cried, with a
voice in which passion commended with
pain can die as | have lived, without
facing ony O. them. But there's ae thing
he said, sinking his voice, there's ae fear
fu' thing hings about my heart, and an an.
ker OF brandy Wilma wash it away-the
Deans at Wooden Il sequestered them
in the dear years, and now they are to flitt
they'll starve-and that Beershaba, and
that auld troopers wife, and her oe, they'll
starve--they'll starve Look oul, Jock;
what night is't?
Onding o shaw, father answered Jock
after having opened the window and look
ed out with great composure.
They'll perish in the drifts, said the
expiring sinner; they II perish wi cau!d
but III be hot aneugh, gin a. tales be true
" This last observation was made under
breath, and in tone which made the very
attorney shudder. He tried his hand az
shostly advice, probably for the first time
in his life, and recommended, as an opiats
for The agonised conscience Of the laird, re-
Paration Of the injuries he had done these
distressed families, which, he observed by
the way, the civil law called restitution in
integrum. But Mammon was struggling
with Remorse for retaining his place in
bosom he had so long possessed and he
partly succeeded, as an old tyrant prove,
often too strong for his insurgent rebels.
Gamma dot, be answered with voice
of despair: 1t would Kill ME to dot
how can ye bid me pay back siller, when
ye ken how want it OF dispose Beershe-
ba, when il lies sac weel into my ain plaid
neuk? Nature made Dumbiedikes and
Beersheba TO be ae mans land. She did,
by -! Nichil, it wad kill me to part
them
But ye maun die,whether or no, Laird
said Mr.. Novit, and may be We wad die
easier-irs but trying. Ill scroll the dis.
position in nae time.
Dinna speak OF, sir, or I'll fling the
scoup at your head. But Jock, lad, ye see
how the warld warstles wi me on nv death
bed. be kind to The poor creatures, the
Deaneses and the Butlers-be kind to them
JOCK. Dlnna let the warld get grip o'ye
LOCKOUT keep the gear tbegither! and
whate'er ye do, dispone Beersheba at no.
rate: Let the creatures stay at mo lerate
mailing, and bae bite and soup il will,
maybe, lie the better wi your father where
he's gaun, lad
After these contradictory instructions,
the Laird felt his mind so much at ease that
he drank three bumpers Of brandy continu-
ously, and ''sougbed awa," as Jenny ex-