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trust the Argents will find money to pay for; and masters are to come in

to teach Rachel the fasionable acco she

was rather old now to be sent to a boarding-school But what I aet

to do for so

no such thing as a wheel within the four walls of London; and, if there

was, the Englishers no nothing about spinning In short, Miss Mally, I

aet the Doctor to come home with

me to our manse, and leave all to Andrew and Rachel, with kurators; but,

as I said, he's as mickle bye himself as onybody, and says that his

candle has been hidden under a bushel at Garnock more than thirty years,

which looks as if the poor man was fey; howsomever, he's happy in his

delooshon, for if he was afflictit with that forethought and wisdom that

I have, I know not ould be the upshot of all this calamity But we

maun hope for the best; and, happen ill, I am, dear Miss Mally,

your sincere friend, JANET PRINGLE