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Page 65 - You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head - Do you think, at your age, it is right?' 'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.
Page 98 - Prayer of the minister of the Cumbrays, two miserable islands in the mouth of the Clyde : ' O Lord, bless and be gracious to the Greater and the Lesser Cumbrays, and in thy mercy do not forget the adjacent islands of * Archibald Campbell, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, and often MP for Glasgow.
Page 65 - You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray how did you manage to do it?
Page 24 - Lor, Mr Mill! What a lovely speech you did make. I do declare I hadn't the slightest notion we were such miserable creatures. No one can say it was your fault that the case broke down.