Were you not an ostler?
No, I were not.
What else were you then?
Why, I was a merchant once.
That is a travelling vagrant pedlar, as I understand your term?
Yes, may be.
Were you ever any thing else in the way of calling?
Never.
Come back now to what you call the marriage. Do you pretend to say that
it was done after the common old form of the church of Scotland? Is not
the general way by a clergyman?
That is not the general way altogether.
Do you mean that the common ordinary way in Scotland is not to send for
a clergyman, but to go a hunting after a fellow like you?
Scotland is not in the practice altogether of going after clergymen.
Many does not go that way at all.
Do you mean to swear, then, that the regular common mode is not to go
before a clergyman?