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The Provost

by John Galt
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INTRODUCTION

During a recent visit to the West Country, among other
old friends we paid our respects to Mrs Pawkie, the relict
of the Provost of that name, who three several times
enjoyed the honour of being chief magistrate in Gudetown.
Since the death of her worthy husband, and the
comfortable settlement in life of her youngest daughter,
Miss Jenny, who was married last year to Mr Caption,
writer to the , she has been, as she told us herself,
"beeking in the lown o' the conquest which the gudeman
had, wi' sic an ettling o' pains and industry, gathered for
his family."

Our conversation naturally diverged into various topics,
and, among others, we discoursed at large on the manifold
improvements which had taken place, both in town and
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country, since we had visited the Royal Burgh. This led
the widow, in plimentary way, to advert to the hand
which, it is alleged, we have had in the editing of that
mst excellent work, entitled, "Annals of the Parish of
Dalmailing,"intimating, that she had a book in the
handwriting of her deceased husband, the Provost, filled
with a variety of most curious matter;in her opinion, of far
mre consequence to the world than any book that we had
ever been concerned in putting out.

Considering the veneration in which Mr Pawkie had been
through life regarded by his helpmate, we must confess
that her eulogium on the merits of his work did not
impress us with the most profound persuasion that it was
really deserving of much , however,
obliged us to express an earnest desire to see the volume,
which, after some little hesitation, was ,
then, of the nature of our emotions, when, in cursorily
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turning over a few of the well-penned pages, we found
that it far surpassed every thing the lady had said in its
praise. Such, in