Loss ef "7hudly.''-Thc Rev. Mir,
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Loss of "7hirdly.r-Thc Rev. Mr.

 =, minister ol -. had a custom of writing the head ofhis discourse on small slips of paper, which he placed on the bible before him, to be dsed insu succcssion- One day, when he was explaining the se- condhead, he gotalittlc warminthc har- ness, and camo down with such q sslsssn;s upon the bible with his hand, that thu. ensuing slip fell over tlIe edge of the pulpit, though unperceivcd by himself. Onreaching the cad of his second head, he looked down for his third slip; but alas! it was not 10 be found. ssThird- ly," he cried, looking round him with great anxiety. After little pause, ssThirdly,v again he exclaimed, but still no thirdly appeared. "Thirdly, say, my brethren,'' pursued the bcwildcred clergyman; but not another wold could he utter. At this point, while the con- gregation were partly sympathising in his distress, and partly rejoicing in such decisive instance of the impropriety of using notes in preaching, which has always been an, unpopular thing in the Scotch clergy, an old woman rose up and thus addressed the preacher:-a1f Fam no mista'cn, sir, saw Thirdly flee out at the cast window a quarter of all hour syne. ltiis impossible for any but a Scotcaman to conceive how much this account of the loss of Thirdly was relishcd by that part of the congrega~ ton which condemned the use of notes.