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sax-and-thirty years, and the King, I'm thinking, can 

 be no muckle waur." ' 



General laughter greeted this; I suppose the tale 

 was new to them. It was the clergyman himself 

 who laughed the loudest, so perhaps it was new to 

 him, but new or not, just as the laughter began to 

 subside, he started us all off afresh with his 'Ach ! 

 it's a puir chance the clergy have when Dr Rorie has 

 done his best.' 



The meal and the evening passed \\ith many another 

 tale, and a song or two from Marcus Thomson, the 

 London trained singer, who, with his splendidly rich 

 baritone voice, gave us, among others, 'The Sands 

 o' Dee.' 



