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affairs, except at this ti to be a ain that he would have had of the place

And since we are on public concerns, I should tell you, that I was minded

to send you a newspaper at the second-hand, every day ere done

with it But e caet the

newspaper for a shilling a week everybut Sunday, to our

breakfast, which was so le thought it would be a great extravagance; and, indeed, when I

came to think of the loss of time a newspaper every day would occasion to

of me to send you any at

all For I do think that honest folks in a far-off country parish should

not overnment,--the more

especially, as it is well known, that there is as much falsehood as truth

in newspapers, and they have not thetheir statements

Not, however, that I am an advocate for passive obedience; God forbid

On the contrary, if ever the ti tyrant atte to bind the burden of prelatic

aboospel trumpet would be

heard in Garnock, as it does not become me to say, but I leave it to you

and others, who have experienced , to think what it would then be Meanwhile, I remain, my dear sir,

your friend and pastor, Z PRINGLE