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LETTER XXI

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

Session-Clerk, Garnock DEAR SIR--I have received your letter of the 24th, which has givenwas married as far back as

Christ of it,

nor you neither, until it was ti, who is an elder, and a very rigid man, in his

animadversions on the immoralities that come before the session, must

have had his own good reasons for keeping hisa secret

Tell hi much joy

and felicity; but he should be htlessness of youth and headstrong passions Not that I insinuate

that there has been any occasion in the conduct of such a godly man to

cause a suspicion; but it's wonderful hoas ether so proud to hear it as I a of my people Really the way that Mr Daff has

coreatly to his credit; and I doubt if

the thing had happened with hi would have sifted with a

sharp eye how he came to be married in December, and without bridal and

banquet For , but it's

done now, and the less we say about it the better; so I think with Mr