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the happiest little group that ever perhaps sat to- gether. Before the cloth was laid for dinner, Mary ran out to put on her white gown, and comb her yel. low hair, but was ſurpriſed at meeting with a smart young gentleman in the kitchen, with a scarlet neck on his coat, and a gold-laced hat. Mary, having never seen ſo fine a gentleman, made him a low courtesy, and offered to conduct him to the room: but he ſmiled, and told her he was the squire's ser- We had all of us forgot to aſk for the gentle. man that came with Duncan. Duncan and Mary walked for two hours in the garden that evening; we did not know what poſſed between them, but the next day he aſked her in mar- riage of my parents, and never will I forget the ſu- preme happiness and gratitude that beamed in every face on that happy occaſſon. I need not tell my readers that my father's affairs were soon retrieved, or that I accompanied my dear Mary a bride to the Highlands, and had the ſatisfaction of ſaluting her as Mrs. Campbell, and Lady of Glenellich.

FINIS.

J. Neilſon, printer.