Whose neck-cloth is so white, etc.
and underneath the following, in which the influence of the Good Book was surely visible:
"MY COMANDMENCE!
1. I must love Jock Stair first of all created things, for he was my mother's friend and mine.
2. Since the Lord has cast the poor from him I must do what I can for them.
3. I must not be afraid of any livving thing, for no gentleman can show forth fear.
4. I must not wish Huey Macrath from Stair, tho' he snuffles and his ears are large, for he was here before I was and is very ritechus.
5. I must not swear, tho' Sandy does, and to say dam is not godly, for a girl.
More to morrow,
L. F. S."