_The Cottage (late the late Miss M'Gregor's), Castleton of Braemar,
August 10, 1881._
MY DEAR GOSSE,--Come on the 24th, there is a dear fellow. Everybody else
wants to come later, and it will be a godsend for, sir--Yours sincerely.
You can stay as long as you behave decently, and are not sick of,
sir--Your obedient, humble servant.
We have family worship in the home of, sir--Yours respectfully.
Braemar is a fine country, but nothing to (what you will also see) the
maps of, sir--Yours in the Lord.
A carriage and two spanking hacks draw up daily at the hour of two
before the house of, sir--Yours truly.
The rain rains and the winds do beat upon the cottage of the late Miss
Macgregor and of, sir--Yours affectionately.
It is to be trusted that the weather may improve ere you know the halls
of, sir--Yours emphatically.
All will be glad to welcome you, not excepting, sir--Yours ever.
You will now have gathered the lamentable intellectual collapse of,
sir--Yours indeed.
And nothing remains for me but to sign myself, sir--Yours,