And there's a queer chap o' the name o' Tombs--they tell me he comes frae Cambridge, and is a kind of a professor there--anyway he's more stuffed wi' havers than an egg wi' meat.

He telled me he was here to get at the heart o' the workingman, and I said to him that he would hae to look a bit further than the sleeve o' the workin'-man's jaicket.

There's no muckle in his head, poor soul.

Then there'll be Tam Norie, him that edits our weekly paper--_Justice for All_.

Tam's a humorist and great on Robert Burns, but he hasna the balance o' a dwinin' teetotum ...