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"Jenny," said country woman to her
buxom daughter, during one OF the warm
mornings CT last summer, "Jennv, yen ava
to the town and bring hame battle o BARN
Tyeast1 wi you." 1t was the preaching days
with Jenny, aud having "trysted to meet her
Joe," she nodded an assent to her mother
commands, with a beam i'll her eye that
bespoke as much of, love as obedience
Having accordingly lost no time In display
ing her charms to the best advantage, she
plunged the quart bottle in among the sun
dries which never fail to occupy the capa
cious receptacle denominated by country
damsels, sidepocket, and so smartiy trip
ped her way to town, that she was halt way
on her return before the sun reached his
meridian. Whether it was that Jenny had
been seized with more than ordinary feelings
Of devotion, or that the willy god, being i'll a
frolicksome humour, had resolved on play
ing off one OF his pranks upon her. we shall
not pretend to say, but certain 1t is that
Jenny, on her way homewards, was just
passing the kirk as she got glimpse OF her
Joe stepping into it Regardless otthe we'll
corked bottle Of BARN, Jenny nstinctlvely
pursued the same course, and sat herself
down beside blowsy wife from Dollar, who
had travelled a dozen miles that morning to
hear the word in its purity, if not to retail
! it still more delectabiy, on her return, to the
drowthy gossps of her parish. Jenny had
scarcely time to look about her till the va
cant seat behind her was occupied by an e.
qually ponderous parsonage, in the shape OF
a horse couper's wife from the West. Had
Jenny been thinking more of her mother, and
less of her sweetheart, it is likely that il
would have occurred to her that so smart a
walk, and SO warm day, were sufficient te
have reused to a state of rebellion more
ouiescept matter than that which dangled by
her side, and in this way avoided bringing
its heat to the provoking temperature i'll.
duced by her own temperature on the one
side and that of the horse couper's wife OF
the other. Be these things as they may, the
heat which had commenced to seal Jenny:
eyes in peaceful slumbers, acted so power
fully on the turbulent properties of the
BARN, that an explosion was inevitable
Soon after Jenny had taken her seat the bot
!