CHAPTER II. 



FREEDOM RELIGIOUS EDt) CATION JEDBURGH. 



[My mother remained at school at Musselburgh for a 

 twelvemonth, till she was eleven years old. After this 

 prolonged and elaborate education, she was recalled to 

 Burntisland, and the results of the process she had 

 undergone are detailed in her " Recollections " with 

 much drollery. 



SOON after nay return home I received a note 

 from a lady in the neighbourhood, inquiring for my 

 mother, who had been ill. This note greatly dis- 

 tressed me, for my half-text writing was as bad as 

 possible, and I could neither compose an answer nor 

 spell the words. My eldest cousin, Miss Somerville, 

 a grown-up young lady, then with us, got me out of 

 this scrape, but I soon got myself into another, by 

 writing to my brother in Edinburgh that I had 

 sent him a bank-knot (note) to buy something for 

 me. The school at Musselburgh was expensive, 

 and I was reproached with having cost so much 

 money in vain. My mother said she would have 



