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ladies fitting in an alcove in their cloth riding habits, inftead of 
their cool chintzes, I expreffed my fear that I prevented them 
from taking their morning ride. They affured me, they did 
not mean to ftir out; and one of them, clapping on a vaft hat 
with a cockade, declared fhe would only go for her work, and 
fit down for the reft of the morning. On turning round, how 
was my rufticity furprized to fee her hair clubbed behind! ano-. 
ther gave me an opportunity of feeing a whifking queue; and a 
third a egreafy braid, hanging down and dabbing the fhining cape! 
Arrer the morning was far fpent, Mifs Dororhy (for, in imi- 
tation of the quality, there are now no fuch things as Dollies, 
_ Mollies, and Betties) with a great yawn flung her arms over her 
head, and her legs a yard before her, and informed us, it was dref- 
fing time: then pulling her watch out of (I believe) a tight lea- 
thern breeches, acquainted us, that it was half paft two; and re- 
turned it to its place with a moft officer-like air. 
I saw the countenance of my good old friend change. As- 
foon as the ladies had left the place, he gave vent to his difcon- 
tent in the following terms: “My dear Fack,” fays he, “ what an 
«© alteration is there in the manners of this houfe fince I laft had. 
«« the happinefS of your company! A curfed vifit to Coxbeath 
< hath infected my poor girls to a degree that gives me the- 
“ keeneft concern. The chafte and elegant dreis, which was 
<< once their characteriftic, is now converted into what you have 
« juft feen. Female delicacy is changed into mafculine cou- 
*“« rage, and as much of the garb affumed as at firft view almo& 
“ leaves the difference of fex undiftinguifhable. The manly 
« habit is put on with the morning, and, as you will fee pre- - 
“ fently, only changed for another of the fame kind. The 
; ‘watch. 
