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At last the organ began to sound, and ent into the place of worship;

but oh, Mr Micklewham, yon is a thin kirk There was not a hearer forby

Mrs Pringle andthe relics of popery that

assisted at the service What was said, I must, however, in verity

confess, was not far from the point But it's still a comfort to see

that prelatical usurpations are on the downfall; no wonder that there is

no broad at the door to receive the collection for the poor, when no

congregation entereth in You ladden his heart to hear the tidings, that the great Babylonian

madam is now, indeed, but a very little cutty

On our return hole, reat consternation about our absence When we told them that

we had been at worship, I saw they were both deeply affected; and I was

pleased with my children, the le's principles have not been strengthened by the

reading of the Edinburgh Review Nothing more passed at that time, for

ere disturbed by a Captain Sabre that ca to see hoere after our journey; and as he was a civil

well-bred young oon, we took a coach, and went to see the lions, as he said; but,

instead of taking us to the Tower of London, as I expected, he ordered

the h the city he

showed us the Temple Bar, where Lord Kilmarnock's head was placed after

the Rebellion, and pointed out the Bank of England and Royal Exchange

He said the steeple of the Exchange was taken down shortly ago--and that

the late i

read in the Edinburgh Advertiser, soreat deal said in Parliae, and the

condition of the Bank, which I could never thoroughly understand And,

no doubt, the taking own of an old building, and the building up of a new

one so near together, reat detrie

After we had driven about for more than two hours, and neither seen lions

nor any other curiosity, but only the outside of houses, we returned

hoent, the colonel's

agent, with the nale were confounded at the sight of this thing, and could not but

think that it prognosticated no good; for we had seen the gentleive no

satisfactory reason for such an extraordinaryon thorns at our dinner, I thought that we