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In the way of , not

dear; but all is sold by the licht weight, only the fish are awful; half

a guinea for a cod's head, and no bigger than the drouds the cadgers

bring frohteenpence apiece

Tell Miss Nanny Eydent that I have seen none of the fashions as yet; but

we are going to the burial of the auld king next week, and I'll write her

a particular account how the leddies are dressed; but everybody is in

deepHowsomever I have seen but little, and that only in a

manner from the ; but I could not ot, and as he's waiting for the pen, you must excuse

haste From your sincere friend, JANET PRINGLE

LETTER VII

Andrew Pringle, Esq, to the Rev Charles Snodgrass

LONDON

MY DEAR FRIEND--It will give you pleasure to hear that et his business speedily settled without any equivocation; and

that all those prudential considerations which brought us to London were

but the phantasms of our own inexperience I use the plural, for I

really share in the shaents: it ought to have been warrantry enough that everything

would be fairly adjusted But I ive you some account of what has

taken place, to illustrate our provincialis business in London

After having recovered from the effects, and repaired so sallied forth, the Doctor,

my mother, and your humble servant, in a hackney coach, to Broad Street,

where the agents have their counting-house, and were ushered into a roo for an audience of Mr Argent,