"I want you to make me a nice pair of boots, if you please," said the
parson, as cheerily as he could. "I am rather particular about the fit, I
fear!"
"And what for no, sir?" answered the soutar. "I'll do what I can onygait, I
promise ye--but wi' mair readiness nor confidence as to the fit; for I
canna profess assurance o' fittin' the first time, no haein the necessar
instinc' frae the mak' o' the man to the shape o' the fut, sir."
"Of course I should like to have them both neat and comfortable," said the
parson.
"In coorse ye wad, sir, and sae would I! For I confess I wad fain hae my
customers tak note o' my success in followin the paittern set afore me i'
the first oreeginal fut!"
"But you will allow, I suppose, that a foot is seldom as perfect now as
when the divine idea of the member was first embodied by its maker?"
rejoined the minister.
"Ow, ay; there's been mony an interferin circumstance; but whan His
kingdom's come, things 'll tak a turn for the redemption o' the feet as
weel as the lave o' the body--as the apostle Paul says i' the twenty-third
verse o' the aucht chapter o' his epistle to the Romans;--only I'm weel
aveesed, sir, 'at there's no sic a thing as _adoption_ mintit at i' the
original Greek.
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