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CROTCHET CASTLE.
Mr. Mac Quedy came up to the divine as Mr. Crotchet left him, and said: "There is one piece of news which the old gentleman has not told you. The great firm of Catchflat and Company, in which young Crotchet is a partner, has stopped payment."
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Bless me! that accounts for the young gentleman's melancholy. I thought they would overreach themselves with their own tricks. The day of reckoning, Mr. Mac Quedy, is the point which your paper-money science always leaves out of view.
MR. MAC QUEDY.
I do not see, sir, that the failure of Catchflat and Company has any thing to do with my science.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
It has this to do with it, sir, that you
