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Isabella, thought it necessary to dispatch a courier, in the shape of a

barefooted servant lass, to Mr Micklewham, to inform the elders that the

Doctor was expected ho it to their discretion

either to greet his safe return at the reeable to theh the clachan Mr Micklewham dismissed his

school an hour before the wonted time, and there was a universal interest

and curiosity excited, to see the Doctor co home in his own coach

All the boys of Garnock assembled at the braehead which commands an

extensive view of the Kilh the parish; the wives with their sucklings were seated on

the large stones at their respective door-cheeks; while their cats were

cal on thesoles The lassie weans, like clustering

bees, were mounted on the carts that stood before Tho with anticipated delight; the old men took their

stations on the dike that incloses the side of the vintner's kail-yard,

and "a batch of wabster lads," with green aprons and thin yellow faces,

planted theable of the malt kiln, where they ont,

when trade was better, to play at the hand-ball; but, poor fellows, since

the trade fell off, they have had no heart for the galitter in empty splendour unrequired on

the shelf below the brazen sconce above the bracepiece, aht copper tea-kettle, the coffee-pot that

has never been in use, and lids of saucepans that have survived their

principals,--the wonted ornae-house kitchen