QUID PRO QUO.
In an old Lanarkshire kirk, long ago, the minister was accustomed, in connection with ‘ the occasion,’ to enumeratein detail different classes of offenders. ‘ Leddy Betty,’ an elderly spinster, sat erect in her family pew, and in the pew next to that of her ladyship sat a certain old bachelor laird, a neighbour and acquaintance. When the minister mademention of ‘card players and gamblers,’ the laird used politely, but wickedly, to offer his snuff-box across to the fair Leddy Betty, hoping that ‘ her leddyship was bearin’.’’ Then, when the minister, in due course, came to ‘profane swearers.’ etc.. Leddy Betty quietly leant over, and, tapding the laird with her fan, said, ‘ Ye’re no sleepin’, I ho[*e r laird f
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 52, 27 December 1890, Page 20
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121QUID PRO QUO. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 52, 27 December 1890, Page 20
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