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One evening as Mr Snodgrass was taking a solitary walk towards Irvine,

for the purpose of calling on Miss Mally Glencairn, to inquire what had

been her latest accounts from their mutual friends in London, and to read

to her a letter, which he had received two days before, frolintoun Gates, that pious wo to Garnock, brience The

air was raw and humid, and the ere deep and foul; she was, however,

protected without, and teers of both

Over her venerable satin mantle, lined with cat-skin, she wore a scarlet

duffle Bath cloak, hich she ont to attend the tent sers in cold and inclement weather

Her black silk petticoat was pinned up, that itof her short steps in the s in a handkerchief to be changed at the

manse, and had fortified her feet for the road in coarse worsted hose,

and thick plain-soled leather shoes

Mr Snodgrass proposed to turn back with her, but she would not permit

him "No, sir," said she, "what I aer--coane to-morrow;--and it does

not pertain to you to sift into the doings that have been done before

your ti like it since the

silencing of M'Auly of Greenock What will the worthy Doctor say when he

hears tell o't? Had it fa'n out with that neighering body, James Daff, I