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Article TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN. ← Page 3 of 9 →
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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
in an ill-humour , impatiently awaiting dinner in tbe best room of tbe "Morpeth Arms " Inn , who , after quoting the Pandects , Duns Scotus , the book of Leviticus , Nostradamus , Solomon , Prester John , the great Panjandrum , and Saunders McKelvie , the paivkic baillie of Perth , and muttering something with a chuckle about " Jeddart justice , hang first ancl try afterwards , " ordered
poor Caleb Critchett to . be at once suspended from the branch of an elm tree which stood too conveniently near , his Majesty adding that he proposed attending the execution in person , and gastronomieally observing that " siccaii a seet was braAv , ancl ga' an unco' appeteete for a haggis , a cockaleekie , or a singgit rjOAV . " * So Critchett swung and the new royal lawgiver dined . f And Mrs . Critchett was a widow .
Not "tocherless , " hoAvever , as her husband ' s judge ivoitlcl hai'e remarked . No ; the late Mr . Critchett had prospered in the fencej business ; " he ought nei'er to have tried his hand at the other , he hadn ' t got the delicacy of touch for it , poor man , " his bereaved , OAAC observed , and if report spake sooth Mrs . Critchett was in a position to be a very reliable judge of the character of the deceased ' s touch , especially when the poor man was partially overcome with liquor ; and the establishment in Westminster made a very comfortable
home , with enough capital left to carry on a snug and profitable coa . l and potato business , to which the enterprising lad y shortly added the purveyance of " table beer licensed to be consumed on the premises , " ancl also the supplying of the A'ery best of Maryland shag tobacco , from his Majesty ' s western plantations , the which might be " drunk " with convenience iu the Avell-lightecl cellar . She ivas a gentle soul , but she had three pet aversions . Her special object
of denunciation Avas co-operative stores : secondly , she detested Scotsmen ; thirdly , she hated Jesuit priests . When , on a gloomy evening in March , 1604-5 , she was roused froin a placid dream of profits in the little room behind the shop , by the sharp trnldino- of the door bell , her first thought , as she looked out ancl beheld a stranger enter , was of a customer with a Civil Service ticket ; her second of a bony northcountryman with a heaA'y rusty-hilted rapier , six feet long , ancl a foot of that
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trying To Change A Sovereign.
in an ill-humour , impatiently awaiting dinner in tbe best room of tbe "Morpeth Arms " Inn , who , after quoting the Pandects , Duns Scotus , the book of Leviticus , Nostradamus , Solomon , Prester John , the great Panjandrum , and Saunders McKelvie , the paivkic baillie of Perth , and muttering something with a chuckle about " Jeddart justice , hang first ancl try afterwards , " ordered
poor Caleb Critchett to . be at once suspended from the branch of an elm tree which stood too conveniently near , his Majesty adding that he proposed attending the execution in person , and gastronomieally observing that " siccaii a seet was braAv , ancl ga' an unco' appeteete for a haggis , a cockaleekie , or a singgit rjOAV . " * So Critchett swung and the new royal lawgiver dined . f And Mrs . Critchett was a widow .
Not "tocherless , " hoAvever , as her husband ' s judge ivoitlcl hai'e remarked . No ; the late Mr . Critchett had prospered in the fencej business ; " he ought nei'er to have tried his hand at the other , he hadn ' t got the delicacy of touch for it , poor man , " his bereaved , OAAC observed , and if report spake sooth Mrs . Critchett was in a position to be a very reliable judge of the character of the deceased ' s touch , especially when the poor man was partially overcome with liquor ; and the establishment in Westminster made a very comfortable
home , with enough capital left to carry on a snug and profitable coa . l and potato business , to which the enterprising lad y shortly added the purveyance of " table beer licensed to be consumed on the premises , " ancl also the supplying of the A'ery best of Maryland shag tobacco , from his Majesty ' s western plantations , the which might be " drunk " with convenience iu the Avell-lightecl cellar . She ivas a gentle soul , but she had three pet aversions . Her special object
of denunciation Avas co-operative stores : secondly , she detested Scotsmen ; thirdly , she hated Jesuit priests . When , on a gloomy evening in March , 1604-5 , she was roused froin a placid dream of profits in the little room behind the shop , by the sharp trnldino- of the door bell , her first thought , as she looked out ancl beheld a stranger enter , was of a customer with a Civil Service ticket ; her second of a bony northcountryman with a heaA'y rusty-hilted rapier , six feet long , ancl a foot of that