Show THANKS OF THE BAILIE SAILIE possibly more truth in speech than he intended there was an excellent man who at af ter serving his fellow citizens in glas gow as a councillor at length was promoted to the dignity of ballie or alderman as the rank is called in iti en england 9 land though he was mas none the worse on that account it is the simple fact that his education had been neg lecter this he proceeded to prove himself happily unconscious in his speech of thanks 1 I canna but say my friends that I 1 am proud of the honor of being made a ballie baille of this great city and I 1 am even I 1 think entitled to the honor for I 1 have gone through a the various stages 0 degradation that a ballie has to do to reach IV it this recalls the famous story of the councillor who objected to a proposal to place a candelabra in the council chamber on the ground that they would need to pay some one to play iti it |