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ſixty feet, and obſerving it, by its white head, I diſmounted, and took it up, but had ſome difficulty in mounting again, partly by the ramping of my horſe, and partly by reaſon of a certain ſort of trembling throughout my whole joints; ſomething alſo of anger had its ſhare in the confuſion: For I thought he laughed when my ſtaff Aew out of my hand. Coming up with him agaia, (who halted all the time I was-ſeeking my ſtaff) I aſked him once more who he was? He anſwered, The Laird of Cool. I enquired, firſt, If he was the Laird of Cool, what brought him hither, and what was his buſineſs with me? He anſwered, The reaſon that I want you is, that I know you are diſpoſed to do for m, what none of your brethren in Nithſdale will ſo much as at. tempt, though it ſerve never ſo good purpoſes. I told him, I would never refuſe to do any good thing, to ſerve a good purpoſe, if I thought I was obliged to it as my duty: He anſwered, ſince I had, undertaken what few in Nithſdale would for he had tried ſeveral perſons upon the ſubject, who were more obliged to him than I was to any perſon living. Upon this I drew my bridle-reins, and talked in ſurpriſe, aſked what I had undertaken? He anſwered, That on Sabbath laſt, I had heard, you condemned Mr. Paton and the other Miniſters of Dumfies, for diſſuading Mr. Mienzies from keeping his appointment with me; and if you had been in their place, you wouldhave