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retrace their fteps through Methven again, with sore heads, while the people were all coll cted at the end of the town to see their friend Johnny pass in the centre of his guards. But when the officers came in the same order they went they did not pass without jeering and flouting, as may well be imagined.
In the year 1757, John had occasion to go to Glasgow on some pressing business and even to travel upon the Sabbath Day, a thing which he would not have done, but for the urgency of his business, for he was not only very religiously brought up but was actually impressed seriously in his own mind with the principles of religion. The weather was remarkably warm, and by the ⟨time⟩ John arrived at Kilsyth, he found ⟨himself⟩ exceedingly dry. He then enquired ⟨after⟩ a public house, and could not gain admittance, from one house he went to another until he had taken a circuit of the ⟨whole⟩ town, and was on the point of giving up ⟨the⟩ idea of obtaining a bottle of ale, when he accidentally observed the door of a public ⟨house⟩ open. in he went, & asked for a bottle. ⟨Na⟩ na said the landlady, we sell nae ale to ⟨souls⟩
