teer officer. But
this had no more effect than to make the soldiers laugh at him, which was
not a decent thing at the interment of their master, our most gracious
Sovereign that was.

However, in this situation we saw all; and I can assure you it was a very
edifying sight; and the people demeaned themselves with so much
propriety, that there was no need for any guards at all; indeed, for that
matter, of the two, the guards, who had eaten the king's bread, were the
only ones there, saving and excepting the Glasgow manufacturer, that
manifested an irreverent spirit towards the royal obsequies. But they
are men familiar with the king of terrors on the field of battle, and it
was not to be expected that their hearts would be daunted like those of
others by a doing of a civil character.

When all was over, we returned to the inns, to get our chaise, to go back
to London that night, for beds were not to be had for love or money at
Windsor, and we reached our temporary home in Norfolk Street about four
o'clock in the morning, well satisfied with what we had seen,--but all
the meantime I had forgotten the loss of the flap of my coat, which
caused no little sport when I came to recollect what a pookit like body I
must have been, walking about in the king's policy like a peacock without
my tail. But I must conclude, for Mrs. Pringle has a letter to put in
the frank for Miss Nanny Eydent, which you will send to her by one of
your scholars, as it contains information that may be serviceable to Miss
Nanny in her business, both as a mantua-maker and a superintendent of the
genteeler sort of burials at Irvine and our vicinity. So that this is
all from your friend and pastor,

ZACHARIAH PRINGLE.

"I think," said Miss Isabella Tod, as Mr. Micklewham finished the reading
of the Doctor's epistle, "that my friend Rachel might have given me some
account of the ceremony; but Captain Sabre seems to have been a much more
interesting object to her than the pride and pomp to her brother, or even
the Glasgow manufacturer to her father." In saying these words, the
young lady took the following letter from her pocket, and was on the
point of beginning to read it, when Miss Becky Glibbans exclaimed, "I had
aye my fears that Rachel was but light-headed, and I'll no be surprised
to hear more about her and the dragoon or a's done." Mr. Snodgrass
looked at Becky, as if he had been afflicte