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landed on terra firma, and then called on to account for his conduct. His speech though brief, was protracted by many a hearty yawn, and all that the auditors could collect from it was, that he belonged to Dumfries, was by trade a tailor, and that while taking a walk on Saturday afternoon, with his week's earnings snug in his pocket, he had "forgathered" with rather a wet acquaintance. A BOUSE was the consequence, and while returning home and passing a spot where a number of crows are known to roost, he imagined he heard a voice saying—"come up this way and take another glass." The invitation was very cordially accepted, but how an individual three parts drunk, managed to climb to a height of 40 feet, and preserve his balance when once there, is what we cannot well understand. The sailor remarked that even he who had been accustomed to climbing all his life, would have felt uneasy in a hammock swung almost topmast high; that a man who could perform such marvellous feats, prostituted his talents by sitting cross-legs; that one good turn deserved another and that if ever the press-gang visited the Nith(illegible text) he would insist on their seizing the tailor as ⟨his⟩ substitute to serve on board a man-of-war. ⟨At⟩ this suggestion the tailor, it is said, looked rather blue; and we have only to add, that the ⟨above⟩ incident, strange as it may appear, was communicated to us from a most respectable quarter and can be vouched for by nearly the whole population of the sweetly rural village of Keltor(illegible text).
