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On Sundayto church, Mr Micklewham called at the

manse, and said that he wished particularly to speak to Mr Snodgrass

Upon being aded at breakfast, with

a book lying on his table, very like a volume of a new novel called

Ivanhoe, in its appearance, but of course it must have been sermons

done up in that manner to attract fashionable readers As soon, however,

as Mr Snodgrass saw his visitor, he hastily removed the book, and put it

into the table-drawer

The precentor having taken a seat at the opposite side of the fire, began

somewhat diffidently to mention, that he had received a letter froht to read it to the

elders, as usual, after worship, and therefore was desirous of consulting

Mr Snodgrass on the subject, for it recorded, as, that

the Doctor had been at the playhouse, and Mr Mickleas quite sure

that Mr Craig would be neither to bind nor to hold when he heard that,

although the transgression was certainly yman, however, could offer no opinion until he

saw the letter, the precentor took it out of his pocket, and Mr

Snodgrass found the contents as follows:-

LETTER XVI

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