84 out of the 100. It was all quotations
verses every thing imaginable connected
with Literature.

I can hardly tell what my chances for prize
are yet.

The Family Company from Glasgow are here just
now in the Mechanics, I was there on
Friday saying "as you like it." I liked it very
much.

If the present weather goes on much longer
you must expect another letter from you's
truly as he will likely be boiled alive
The thermometer only stands at 115°

Is it so bad with you. It is a sad sight
to see the way in which all the boys rush
to get into some shoddy party track us all
a liason like a theatre (in a small scale) on
the sands the bills of which in large letters

"Must urgently advise all guardians and parents

It takes their children to see The Bottle a drama
in four acts, the last of which representing
the drunken husband and lying in a pool of
Gore and his wife going up to Denver
intercede for herruptive husband, cannot
get $ make an embellecting impression
on the youthful mind." which Ivensay
is quite true but as the kind of impression—

I am going down to see Singers
Circons in a little so please excuse
hasty writing. None you see this
Cirrus, I think by the way people
speak it right to be good.

C. Wilson and I had a long walk
a few Saturdays ago from Dumfries
to Dunogle (33 miles in 9½ hours) but it was
good you will have been seeing me before, It got
into the papers under the head of "Plucky Pederlinn"