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Show Got Lid at a Bargain. Mistress McIIaiuleiu is a very keen hand at a bargain and few have ever been able to boast that they have "got the best o' her" In a deal. The other day she entered the village shop, where everything and anything, from a pair of spectacles down to an ounce of lea, can be purchased, and said: "Wad ye sell me a sugar basin without the cover?" "Oh. aye," said the merchant, who would sell the shoos otT his feet at a profit. "lloo muckle Is this, then?" inquired the customer. "That's a shuilin' complete." "An' whit for the basin without the lid?" "Eleven pence." "D'ye only tak' a penny aff for the lio?" "Weel, the lid's no' worth mair nor a penny." "Eli, that's guld news," ejaculated the lady, with a sigh of relief. "It's jlst the lid o' mine I've broken." And so saying she laid down a penny and walked off with the coveted lid before the astonished shopkeeper had time to utter a word. |