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We are going about in an easy way, seeing what is to be seen in the shape

of curiosities; but the whole town is in a state of ferment with the

election of members to Parliament I have been to see't, both in the

Guildhall and at Covent Garden, and it's a frightful thing to see how the

Radicals roar like bulls of Bashan, and put down the speakers in behalf

of the government I hope no harm will come of yon, but I must say, that

I prefer our own quiet canny Scotch way at Irvine Well do I remember,

for it happened in the year I was licensed, that the town council, the

Lord Eglinton that was shot being then provost, took in the late Tho versed in election

to please his lordship (for, like the rest of the

council, he had always a proper veneration for those in power), he, as I

was saying, consulted Joseph Boyd the weaver, as then Dean of Guild,

as to the way of voting; whereupon Joseph, as a discreet man, said

to him, "Ye'll just say as I say, and I'll say what Bailie Shaw says, for

he will do what

up a member to Parliament as could well be devised