PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
great deal mair to say. The reader will be sorry to hear o' Peter Spale's death. Peter wis a worthy man, but a dour arguer on releegious subjects. He passed awa, at a ripe age, and kens noo wha wis richt and wha wis wrang. Dr. Threshie has been laid aside for some weeks wi' a sair brash o' liver complaint, and Willie Warstle, the bursar, in spite o' youthful vagaries and heterodox notions, promises, sae far as we can see, to be an upright business man.
M. S.
Drumsynie,
Pollokshields,
May, 1887.
