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superintend the catering for dinner, and arrange 

 matters about the nautch ? " 



" Yees, yees," replied the kind-hearted old Scotch- 

 man, " gang yere ways, gang ycre ways, and tak' ye 

 care and kill the tiger, and dunna let him kill ony 

 o' ye ; for though there's not mucli more use o' sich 

 like folk than a pack of wild Irishmen, I do not 

 want to hae' ony o' ye scragged." 



