ALEXANDER WILSON. XXXvii 
cauD-Lt°r^ “''ders to the contrary. One of my boys 
marched uTtom^” m’'?"’’ “ ‘’‘‘'ecHy 
it that sa . with his prisoner. I set about drawing 
its little ®'miiiig; and all the while the pantings of 
of fear shewed it to be in the most extreme agonies 
daws to kill it, in order to fix it in the 
of Wifo ** “wi ; but, happening to spill a few drops 
eagerness”^” i'^ ^'*fiPad it up with such 
diam V ^ P“'’aatly overcame me. I imme- 
auoni “‘"1 lilterty. The 
iLrumenL^ Ate and 
severe tn, ,f 
severe than the sufferings ot that poor mouse ; and insic 
nificaju as the object was, I felt at that moment the sweft 
ensations that mercy leaves on the mind when she 
tnumphs over cruelty.” Writing to a friend in Piu.sley, in 
mv’^ "I'Plic.ition to the duties ot 
bits which I have followed since Nov. 1795, 
rnvramTr constitution; the more so, that 
o/e’s ‘P«Po«>tion was the worst calculated of any 
life T 1^*^ "'r ‘ regularity of a teaclier’s 
raa^hen, ^ Scotland, _ 
and I n„^ •German language, music, drawing, &c. 
Wrds.'“ tT”' *“ “ collection of all our finest 
ids owi ■ rntentions were, after due deliberation in 
ami L ' ®'*i''oitted to his friends, Messrs Bartram 
ftc al former expressed his confidence in 
fears “''^.“'^‘I’dremeiits of Wilson; hut hinted his 
an ei t '***' difiiculties which stood in tlie way of such 
wa-s not'T''?* overcome. AVilsoii 
odjectio ° i'dimidated, but had a ready answer to every 
trembled I . ‘’““tious friend, who seems to have 
situation “'temperate zeal should lead him into a 
wellhee’-t^”"’ emharrassnients of which he could not 
^ ticated. The latter approved of the undertaking; 
