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Excerpt from Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Vol. 3
Those I have already remarked, seem; in pass ing along, to be chie?y occupied in recognizing and shaking hands with each other - and some times with old acquaintances among the citizens of the place. Their greetings seem to be glven and returned with a'degree of heartiness and sa tisfaction, which 1n5p11'es a favourable idea of all parties concerned. I observed only this minute, a thin, hardy-looking minister, in a blue spenser over his sables, a1rested immediately under my window, by a jolly-looking burgher, who, to judge, by his obesity, may'probably be 111 the magistracy, or council at least. Hoo d'ye do, Mr Such a-thing said the cit, (for I could not help lifting the glass an inch or two, ) and hoo did ye leave all at Auchtertirloch Manse 9 You must come and take your broth with us. To which the man in black replies with a clerical blandness of modulation Most certainlyj - you are exceedingly good - and hoo fares it with your good leddy You have lately had an addi tion to your family. I understand from a friend'in the North, cries the other, that you are not behind me. In that particular - twins, Doctor O, the luck of a manse - Aloud cachin nation follows from both parties, and after a bow and a scrape - 'f You will remember four o'clock on Tuesday, Dr Macalpine.
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