So many pleasing anecdotes of your boyhood days she delighted to relate and scarcely a Highlander comes into the house that is at all likely to know anything about you that sees your little boy who is placed upon the parlour mantlepiece as one of the principle ornaments. How very much all your friends long for your coming home. With Uncle and Aunt it is an increasing expectation. Aunt H poor body goes the length of imagining that that is Donald McLean if they observe a carriage with a single gentleman driven in this direction. Uncle says that Mrs Gascoyne's father was either first or second cousin to your father but no relation by your mother. Uncle had an intimation of the death of McLean, minister of Tyree. The McLeans