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 him sae decently, since, though he was nae fatter, yet he looked mair manly than when he was ta'en frae Milnwood."

Next she enlarged on the advantage of saving old clothes to be what she called beet-masters to the new, and was far advanced in the history of a velvet cloak belonging to the late Milnwood, which had first been converted to a velvet doublet, and then into a pair of breeches, and appeared each time as good as new, when Morton interrupted her account of its transmigrations to bid her good-bye.

He gave, indeed, a sufficient shock to her feelings, by expressing the necessity he was under of proceeding on his journey that evening.

"And where are ye gaun?—And what wad ye do that for?—And whar wad ye sleep. but, in: your ain house, after ye hae heen sae many years frae hamer?"

"I feel all the unkindhess of it, Ailie, but it must be so; and that was the reason that I attempted to conceal myself from