The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

:youIlETTERSj TRACTS, ifs:* '44ftiGLammas time, when roups, many rouDs of o-row^mg corn are intimated at the kirk-doors every where ;if, hkeaman in a bodily fever, who cHmbs.up the1 ates to the rigging of a houfe, you run madly tothQiQ roups as ulual, and firft get yourfelves intoxi,cated, and then make ruinous bargains, I {hall conclude,that your difeafe is ftill in its full violence, andhath not yet taken any favourable turn ; I fhall, however,be very forry if that fnali be the cafe.^But if you are fenfible you have been hurt by roups,you will certain-Iy. avoid them; you will even be attome pams to counterwork the intimations that aremade of r roups. A rouper is purfuing his intereft,when he pays the bell-m.an to intimate his roup and•will purfue your intereft, when you pay the fame^bell-man. to cry at the -kirk-door, at all proper times,J3eware of roups ;" or, when an officer goes througha country village, urging and calling upon you tocome to roups, who can hinder you to fend a loudercrier after him, to warn thofe of you who may need-It, by echoing in their ears,