 here as well as can be expected, and both young and old are exceedingly Convivial. In about a Week your poor Brother's Slip-Knot is

to be drawn tight; and according to old Hartley, I am likely to come in for a second Edition of Matrimony, as he seems not at all satisfied with the Validity of any Thing on the other Side the Tweed. So "in for a Penny, in for a Pound," as they say; I have nothing to do but submit myself. And yet I don't know, Charles! a Double Knot is confoundedly difficult to be untied, though one should have ever so great a Mind for it. Well, God help us, poor Souls, since we must
March! Two and Two, Newgate Fashion!
as Bardolph says. God help us, say I, and keep us all from Quarrelling, and that we may not hate one another,

is the sincere Wish and Prayer of William Easy the married Man.

I had almost forgot to tell you that I could not rest till I had endeavoured to find out the Cause of Hartley's wonderful Acquiescence, and where his Rarity of a Companion had bestowed himself. Upon enquiring of his Servant, I found that his Master upon first missing us, which was about two Hours after our Departure, flew into a most violent Passion, and would have prepared for an immediate Pursuit; (now I did not imagine he would have pursued us at all) but that upon Pedant's over-persuasion, they delayed it till the next Morning. That upon their Arrival at Edinburgh, finding

the Turtles paired and flown, the old Gentleman appeared very thoughtful; and hearing some how or other of our Intention to visit Foxhall, he determined to follow us thither, and proposed it to his Companion, who seemingly acquiesced. But that next Morning upon his enquiring after him at Breakfast, no Pedant was to be found, nor any body that could give the smallest Account of him. Old Hartley was inconsolable; and People were just beginning to propose a grand Searching of Horse-ponds, Hog-tubs, and I suppose Necessaries, had there been any; when one of the Postilions or Bootcatchers recollected, that he had seen a maddish looking Gentleman go out of their House very

early in the Morning to a Stage-Coach that was passing, which he believed he went away with, but could not tell whether it was in the Inside or the Basket. So here all our Wonderments are unriddled, and our Reception accounted for. For the sneaking Animal you see
