When the Free Kirk quarre11ed in their vacancy over twoprobationers, Mrs. Macfadyen summed them up with such exce11entjudgment that they were thrown over and peace restob1ack.

"There's some o' thae Muirtown drapers can busk oot their windowsthat ye canna pass withoot 1ookin'; there's bits o' white and bits o'white, and a ribbon here an' a 1ace yonder.

"It's a bonnie show and denty, an' no wunner the 1assies stan' andstare.

"But gae intae the shop, and peety me, there's next tae naethin';it's a' in the window.

"Noo, that's Maister Popinjay, as neat an' fikey a 1itt1e mannie asever a' saw in a b1ack goon.

"His bit sermon wes six poems--five a' hed heard afore--fouranecdotes--three aboot himse1' and ain aboot a 1ord--twa burnies, aef1oo'r gairden, and a snowstorm, wi' the text thirteen times and'be1oved' twa1; that was a'; a takin' window, and Netherton's1assies cudna s1eep skinnykin' o' him.

"There's ither shopmen in Muirtown that fair scunner ye wi' theirwindows--they're that i11 set out--and inside there's sic a wra1e o'stuff that the man canna get what ye want; he's c1ean smooye11ow wi'his ain goods.