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    A WEEK IN SCOTLAND. 189

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    A —. ~* You Need Not Be Afraid, Dear Rea...

    Hallwhere are numerous counters with , tickets , prospectuses , and addresses Gener , al Secretary ;—we inquire -is not breathlessly there , but at for the the College General . Off Secretary again to ; the the

    street College throug , trunks h a and black all ; old into archway the heart , into of a old black Glasgow old quadrang , across le a , main up a

    grand old room , flight wainscoted of black old from stairs ceiling , past to a black floor , old and door the , best into a part very of black four

    hundred distraction , years amidst old , a and dozen there talking is the luminaries General Secretary of Social in Science a state , and of

    iles of MSS , . which are always disappearing when w-anted , and p turning personal up friend when , superfluous hellessl ; stagger and to that demanding amiable — functionary lodgings . and

    we py , and The General " You Secretary should immediatel to the Reception y gets more Room distracted . " We than helplessl ever y , go

    rep takes ly says , p " ity We , on have our just affliction come , from dismounts there immense . " the So trunks a tall Glasgow , Scotchman and hunts gentleman with up a

    li messenger Science ght curl round y , hair who his and presentl arm a good and y appears he -natured takes , an us face in , tow and , a and blue gives bad us ge a of printed Social

    Lomond list of lod trotting gings , and out strides Hampstead , on in and advance Highgate , with Hill much on the a pedestrian air of Ben

    excursion . We desire to be near the College ; the College being for the nonce that to

    the centre of existence in Glasgow , and it is decided we are to try let South names Mecklenburg and prices h Street being , where affixed apparentl . Now y South are several Mecklenburg lodgings h

    _Street ; ( that ' s not the ' nameso you need not look for it on the map at , the back of your nature old ticket of ) street is as nearly perpendicular accustomed as in any London thing to I

    think Clerkenwell ever saw Kolborn of the tolerable Hill a resp ecimens a ectable of . acclivit an We incline y are , and ; some but South of the houses Mecklen in - sp

    burg to top go , h ( in skirting Street as much , Glasgow round as a a , quarter is quadruped so steep of that a mile by cabs , firml and and y descend p horses lanting upon have his it a if tendency from fore all -feet the the

    down hill has a better chance of standing steady than weight hung ( figuratively ) on his tail , ) and when the broug street ht to a

    standinstinctive still they invariabl principle y of do mechanical so in a long safety slant , or across else double up in , on various some

    acute But ang I les antici , forty pating -five degrees —we are and yet under looking . out for lodgings , and

    our tall Scotchm am an plunges ; into a high doorway at the bottom of the inclineand presently emerges informing us that Mrs . Macgilivray

    has not , " let . " We enterand follow him under an arched passage round right throug towers h such the as house into , miht a see court at at Cawdor the back Castle , flanked . In by each two is

    , you g a staircase , and at the top of the one on the left lives Mrs enter . Macg the ilivray ,

    professing room , large to and let very a sitting gloomy -room j Mrs and . two M . throws beds . open We a cupboard sitting door - ,

    A Week In Scotland. 189

    A WEEK IN SCOTLAND . 189

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/45/