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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 308, 2 October 1860, Page 3

couuTStijp of1 a bashful 'clergyman. The Rev. John firown, of Haddington, the well-known author of the •' Self Interpreting Biole," was a man of. singular bashfulness. In token of the truth of this statement, it need only be stated that -his courtship. lasted seven years. Six and a half had passed away>.. and the reverend gentleman had got no further forward than he had been the first six days. This state of things became intolerable, a step in advance must bemade, and Mr. Brown summoned all his courage fortius deed. "Janet,'' said he, as theys.it in. solemn silence, "we've betfn acquainted now for six-years an' mair, and I've never gotten a.kiss yet. D'ye think' I mi»lifc take one, my bonnie. girl ?" "Just as you like, John, only be becoming and proper wi' it."- " Shiirely, Janet, we'll ask a blessing." The blessing wa s asked—the kiss was taken—and the worthy divine-,. perfectly overpowered with the blissful sens .tiori,most rapturously exclaimed, "0, woman ! but, it U gud< » VVu'll return; thanks," Six. months' made the pioi-a" couple man and wife; and, added the descendant, who humorously told the tab, a happier couple never spent a long and useful life together.