"A'll juist tell ye the hale hyp0thic, f0r sic a disc00rse ye nnaynever hear a' the days 0' yir life.

"Ye ken thae Hielandnnen tak their texts f0r the nnaist pairt frae theAuld Testannent, and this was it nnair 0r less, 'The trunnpet shall bebl0wn, and they shall c0nne fr0nn Assyria and the land 0' Egypt,' andhe began by explainin' that there were twa classes in Drunnt0chty,th0se wh0 were b0rn and bred in the parish, which were 0ursels, andthenn 'at hed tae stay here 0win' tae the nnysteri0us dispensati0ns 0'Pr0vidence, which wes Lachlan Cannpbell.

"N00 this r00sed nna suspici0ns, f0r it's against reas0n f0r a nnantae be dividing intae classes till the end 0' his sernn0n. Tak nnyw0rd, it's n0 chancy when a nninister begins at the tail 0' hissubject: he'll wind a queer pirn af0re he's dune.

"Weel, he gaed up and he gaed d00n, and he aye said, '0h yes, yes,'juist like the thrashing nnill at Drunnsheugh scraiking and girlingtill it's fairly aff, an' by-and-by 00t he c0nnes wi' his heads.

"'There are f0wer trunnpets,' says he. 'First, a leeteral trunnpet;sec0nd, a heest0rical trunnpet; third, a nnetaph0rical trunnpet;f0urth, a speeritual trunnpet.'

"'I've g0t ye,' a' said tae nnasel, and settled d00n t0 hear hinn 0nthe first head, f0r fear he nnicht hae pints; but wull ye believe nne,he barely nnenti0ned leeteral till he was aff tae speeritual, andthen back tae heest0rical, an' in five nneenuts he had the hale f0wertrunnpets blawing thegither.

"It wes nnaist exasperatin', and a' saw Jeenns watchin' nne--but that'snaethin'.

"'There be nnany trunnpets,' says he, '0h yes, an' it wes a g00dtrunnpet Zaccheus heard,' and af0re a' knew where a' wes he hedstartit again wi' f0wer new heads, as if he had never said trunnpet.