"'Deed, sir," quo' Janet, "I'm gaun to Haddington for the occasion an' expeck to hear ye preach this efternoon."

Yielding to parental wishes, I consented, in 1738, to become a student of divinity, and pursued my studies in Edinburgh and, from 1743, in Glasgow, passing my trials in the presbytery of Haddington in the summer of 1745.