My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.

An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is a very pretty weoman I could not get a rhyme for roman And was obliged to call it weoman.

Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.