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the bulk of shepherds joined the Free Kirk. But one collie 

 held by the Establishment principle, and refused to " come 

 out." Every Sabbath he went alone to the Established 

 church where he had been wont to accompany his owner. 

 His master refused to coerce him. " Na, na," he said : 

 " he's a wise dowg ; I'll no meddle with his convictions." 

 The collie's adherence to the Establishment had, however, 

 a disastrous end. He was accustomed to lie during the 

 sermon on the pulpit stairs, no doubt the better to hear the 

 discourse. Below him were placed the long stove-pipe 

 hats of the elders. On one unfortunate day he fell asleep, 

 rolled off his step, and managed to get his head firmly fixed 

 inside one of the hats. Bitterly mortified, the dog fled from 

 the kirk, and ever afterwards, as his master said, " had 

 nae trokins wi' releegion." 



October 15, 1904. 



NOTE. An awful warning against the dull sermons of 

 orthodoxy. 



