landlady; "and yet I wonder our gentry leave their ain wark to the like o' him.—But as lang as siller's current, Deacon, folk manna look ower nicely at what king's head's on't."

"I doubt Glossin will prove but shand after a', mistress," said Jabos, as he passed through the little lobby beside the bar; "but this is a gude half-crown ony way."