THE DEVIL IN BEQUEST.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4422, 7 March 1883, Page 4

THE DEVIL IN BEQUEST.

In London Society, is the following story of the Eev. "Walter Dunlop, of

Dumfries:—:" In a village near Dum

fries; he one day saw that some pigs, - apparently broken loose, had gone into a field of ripening corn, and seemed enjoying the treat while doing something in the work of destruction. The reverened gentlemen stepped into a bumble cottage on the opposite side of the road, and said, "Gude wife, guide wife, the pigs have got in amang the corn!" The woman thus addressed deigned to raise her bead, her arms akimbo, and cried out, "O, the deevil

choke them ?"• Having thus done " the citil thing," away jogged the parson to the other end of the village, which was about a mile in length, and there he saw a number of geese in another corn* field, and, as in the previous case, informed the gudewife. She, somewhat like the other lady, as if impelled by incentive familiarity with the black gentleman, cried out, ," O, the deevil tak' them !" Mr Dunlop, rather tickled with the village phraseology, turned upon her, and; quietly said, "I doot ye canna get him just now, mistress, as he's at the ither end o' the toon, choking twa swine." Evidently ■ the learned theologian did not believe in the omnipresence of the miscalled ''morning star."