[429:1] MS. R.S.E.
[429:2] The Firth of Forth.
[430:1] Literary Gazette , 1822, p. 691. Collated with original MS. R.S.E.
[432:1] Minto MSS.
[432:2] Minto MSS.
[433:1] MS. R.S.E.
[435:1] Minto MSS.
[436:1] When the house was built, and inhabited by Hume, but while yet the street, of which it was the commencement, had no name, a witty young lady, daughter of Baron Ord, chalked on the wall, the words "St. David Street." The allusion was very obvious. Hume's "lass," judging that it was not meant in honour or reverence, ran into the house much excited, to tell her master how he was made game of. "Never mind, lassie," he said; "many a better man has been made a saint of before."
[436:2] MS. R.S.E.