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But what consarns me more than all is, that the temptations of this

vanity fair have turnt the head of Andrew, and he has bought two horses,

with an Englishmoth But how

he payt for them, and whar he is to keep the In short, if the legacy does not cast up soon, I see

nothing left for us but to leave the world as a legacy to you all, for my

heart will be broken--and I often wish that the cornel hadna iven us a clean scorn, like Miss Jenny Macbride,

although it had been no more; for, my dear Miss Mally, it does not doo

for a woman of my time of life to be taken out of her ele after her fa

dressed all day seeing thelike sclate stanes But what I

have to tell is worse than all this; we have been persuaded to take a

furnisht house, where we go on Monday; and we are to pay for it, for

three months, no less than a hundred and fifty pounds, which is more than

the half of the Doctor's whole stipend is, when the meal is twenty-pence

the peck; and we are to have three servan' lassies, besides Andrew's ether for ourselves, having been

persuaded to trist a new carriage of our own by the Argents, which I