The Ayrshire Legatees, Or, the Pringle Family

Matty Glencairn. London. My DEAR Miss Mally,-You must not expect no particulars from me of our journey; but as Rachel is writing all the calamities that befell us to Bell Todd, you will, no doubt, hear of them. But all is nothing to my losses. I bought from the first hand, Mr Treddles the manufacturer, two pieces of muslin, at Glasgow, such a thing not being to be-had on any reasonable terms here, where they get all their fine muslins from Glasgow and Paisley; and in the same.bocks with them I packit a small crock of our ain excellent poudered butter, with a delap cheese, for I was told that such commodities are not to be had genuine in London. I likewise had in it a pot of marmlet, which Miss Jenny Macbride gave me at Glasgow, assuring me that it was not only dentiee, but a curiosity among the English, and my best new bumbeseen gown in peper. Howsom- ever, in the nailing of the bocks, which I did carefully with my oun hands,one of thenails gaed in ajee, and broke the pot of marmlet, which, by the jolting of the ship, ruined the muslin, rottened the peper round the goun, which the shivers cut into more thantwenty great holes. Over and above all, the crock with the butter was, no one can tell how, crackit, and the pickle lecking out, and mixing with the seerip of the marmlet, spoilt the cheese. In short, at the object I beheld, when the bocks was opened, I could have ta'en to the greeting; but I behaved with more composity on the occasion, than the ...