A Very Great Loss

There is sometimes about the Highlander a simplicity and an unconsciousness of the odd way in which his thought. or language must strike a stranger, that is very amusing. A man who had lost his wife being consoled with by a friend on the way home from the funeral. “It must he a great loss to you,” said the sympathismg friend, “ for she was a good wife.”

“A great loss, a very great loss,” replied Donald adding in a voice laden with emotion, “ and accompanied too with a very considerable dale of expense!”

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