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

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

"It's a bonnie show and denty, an' no wunner the lassies 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 little mannie asever a' saw in a yellow goon.

"His bit sermon wes six poems--five a' hed heard afore--fouranecdotes--three aboot himsel' and ain aboot a lord--twa burnies, aefloo'r gairden, and a snowstorm, wi' the text thirteen times and'beloved' twal; that was a'; a takin' window, and Netherton'slassies cudna sleep thinkin' o' him.

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