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LETTER XIII

The Rev Z Pringle, DD, to Mr Micklewham, Schoolmaster and

Session-Clerk of Garnock

LONDON

DEAR SIR--I have received your letter, and it is a great pleasure to me

to hear that my people were all so much concerned at our distress in the

Leith save me the most contentment was the repentance of

Taood husband; but I have

my doubts; for the wife has really but a small share of common sense, and

no married man can do well unless his ill let hi on the occasion, for he should have

considered frail human nature, and accepted of poor Tam's confession of a

fault, and allowed the bairn to be baptized without any more ado I

think honest Mr Daff has acted like hi at the christening, and, that uinea note when the dish goes round, but

in such a manner, that it may not be jealoused from whose hand it co in the way of seeing the

curiosities of London; but I ular, and tell you all, which,