quizz:. 



sealed.' - of sublime and tender feeling that qui - ire 



In our own youth we remember being des\ 

 on an emba-- I Bdinl rgh •. -_ 



'.-:. -- Our miss was ". the I kburn, 



then His Ma s Solicitor-^ : aL and withal on: L 



Sector ; and our errand was to bring him through : _ 

 a casting-vote in his own behalf, so that he might be re- 

 elected to a third year of office. T the staunch old 

 Reformer this sal was too like self -election to be 



altogether pala table; bin blast he agreed to do it: and 

 when the interview ended, as L .on th- of his 



house in Char, bte Squ the sunbeams glancing on the 

 polished cupola of that hatless cranium which held m 

 shrewdness, wit. and eloquence than any head in Edinburgh, 



remember how he WeD, I suppose I must do 



and be mortally •:. for the : si f my days. H 



I -hall not go about the bush. I shan't say. I give my 

 r the present Lor IB toi or, ' I give my I for 

 the Solicitor-general/ But the Principal v My I rd, 



for whom do and I shall reply. ' Principal Mac- 



farlan. I vote i — a promise which he fulfil 



most literally. This fear of being " quizzed" is an affection 



-eminently S ttisl it Irish n ighbours live in an 



atmosphere o: and John Bull pa] 



Punch a handsome salary for quizzing him ; but north of 

 the Tweed we do not like it In a battle betwixt cat and 



