Asked how she knew this, she admitted having counted the egg-shells that Marget had thrown out of doors in the morning.

This, with the testimony of the persons from whom Sandy had sought condolence on the Saturday night, was the case for the prosecution.

For the defence, Bell maintained that all preparations stopped when the clock struck twelve, and even hinted that the bairn had been born on Saturday afternoon.

But Sandy knew that he and his had got a fall.

In the forenoon of the following Sabbath the minister preached from the text, "Be sure your sin will find you out;" and in the afternoon from "Pride goeth before a fall." He was grand.