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eh, conduct should go, on in a Christian church.

Where is the church officer ?" "A'm the Beadle o' Drumtochty"-- standing in his place--"an' a'll dae yir pleesure;" and the occasion was too awful for any one, even the dog's master, to assist, far less to laugh.
So Laddie was conducted down the passage--a dog who would not condescend to resist--and led to the outer gate of the kirkyard, and John came in amid a dead silence--for Mr.Curlew had not yet got his pulpit note again--and faced the preacher.
"The dog 's oot, sir, but a' tak this congregation tae witness, ye begood (began) it yirsel'," and it was said that Mr.Curlew's pious and edifying chant was greatly restricted in country kirks from that day.
It was not given to the beadle to sit with the elders in that famous court of morals which is called the Kirk Session, and of which strange stories are told by Southern historians, but it was his to show out and in the culprits with much solemnity.

He was able to denote the exact offence in the language of Kirk law, and was considered happy in his abbreviations for technical terms.

As a familiar of the Inquisition, he took oversight of the district, and saw that none escaped the wholesome discipline of the Church.
"Ye 're back," he said, arresting Peter Ferguson as he tried to escape down a byroad, and eyeing the prodigal sternly, who had fled from discipline to London, and there lost a leg; "the' 'll be a meetin' o' Session next week afore the Saicrament; wull a' tell the Doctor ye're comin' ?" "No, ye 'll dae naething o' the kind, for a 'll no be there.