CHAPTER XXIX.
EASY IS THE SLOPE OF HELL The electors for the Tillietudlem district burghs, disgusted by the roguery of Mr.M'Buffer, and anxiously on the alert to replace him by a strictly honest man, returned our friend Undy by a glorious majority.

He had no less than 312 votes, as opposed to 297, and though threatened with the pains and penalties of a petition, he was not a little elated by his success.

A petition with regard to the Tillietudlem burghs was almost as much a matter of course as a contest; at any rate the threat of a petition was so.

Undy, however, had lived through this before, and did not fear but that he might do so again.

Threatened folks live long; parliamentary petitions are very costly, and Undy's adversaries were, if possible, even in more need of money than himself.
He communicated his good fortune to his friend Alaric in the following letter:-- 'Bellenden Arms, Tillietudlem, July, 185-.
'My DEAR DIRECTOR, 'Here I am once more a constituent part of the legislative wisdom of the United Kingdom, thanks to the patriotic discretion of the pot-wallopers, burgage-tenants, and ten-pound freeholders of these loyal towns.