running horses; by G-d, I might have got leave to wear the jacket
as well as other folk if I had carried it on with them; and she
has not so much as left me that hundred!'

'We'll make the payment of the note quite agreeable,' said Mr.
Protocol, who had no wish to increase at that moment the odium
attached to his office. 'And now, gentlemen, I fancy we have no
more to wait for here, and I shall put the settlement of my
excellent and worthy friend on record to-morrow, that every
gentleman may examine the contents, and have free access to take
an extract; and'--he proceeded to lock up the repositories of the
deceased with more speed than he had opened them--'Mrs. Rebecca,
ye'll be so kind as to keep all right here until we can let the
house; I had an offer from a tenant this morning, if such a thing
should be, and if I was to have any management.'

Our friend Dinmont, having had his hopes as well as another, had
hitherto sate sulky enough in the armchair formerly appropriated
to the deceased, and in which she would have been not a little
scandalised to have seen this colossal specimen of the masculine
gender lolling at length. His employment had been rolling up into
the form of a coiled snake the long lash of his horse-whip, and
then by a jerk causing it to unroll itself into the middle of the
floor. The first words he said when he had digested the shock
contained a magnanimous declaration, which he probably was not
conscious of having uttered aloud--'Weel, blude's thicker than
water; she's welcome to the cheeses and the hams just the same.'
But when the trustee had made the above-mentioned motion for the
mourners to depart, and talked of the house being immediately let,
honest Dinmont got upon his feet and stunned the company with this