the cadgers bring from Ayr, at a shilling and eighteenpence apiece.

Tell Miss Nanny Eydent that I have seen none of the fashions as yet;
but we are going to the burial of the auld king next week, and I'll
write her a particular account how the leddies are dressed; but
everybody is in deep mourning. Howsomever I have seen but little,
and that only in a manner from the window; but I could not miss the
opportunity of a frank that Andrew has got, and as he's waiting for
the pen, you must excuse haste. From your sincere friend,

JANET PRINGLE.


LETTER VII


Andrew Pringle, Esq., to the Rev. Charles Snodgrass--LONDON.

My Dear Friend--It will give you pleasure to hear that my father is
likely to get his business speedily settled without any
equivocation; and that all those prudential considerations which
brought us to London were but the phantasms of our own inexperience.
I use the plural, for I really share in the shame of having called
in question the high character of the agents: it ought to have been
warrantry enough that everything would be fairly adjusted. But I
must give you some account of what has taken place, to illustrate
our provincialism, and to give you some idea of the way of doing
business in London.

After having recovered from the effects, and repaired some of the