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critical strictures which would otherwise have been le's epistle "Da, and

could not tell whether the land ahead was Plada or the Lady Isle" Soht the observation not inapplicable to what they had

been hearing

Miss Isabella Tod then begged that Miss Mally, their hostess, would

favour the cole's communication To this request

that considerate ate deemed it necessary, by

way of preface to the letter, to say, "Ye a' ken that Mrs Pringle's a

woman, and ye maunna expect anytaken the letter from her pocket, and

placed her spectacles on that functionary of the face which was destined

to wear spectacles, she began as follows:-LETTER XI

Mrs Pringle to Miss Mally Glencairn MY DEAR MISS MALLY--We have been at the counting-house, and gotten a sort

of a satisfaction; what the upshot nosticate; but when the waur comes to the worst, I think that baith

Rachel and Andreill have a nest egg, and the Doctor and me may sleep

sound on their account, if the nation doesna break, as the argle-barglers

in the House of Parlia: for all the cornal's

fortune is sunk at present in the pesents Howsoacies are paid off, to lift the ood interest on hairetable securitie But ye will hear

aften frooings, and the cos in this town of London are past all expreshon