n a kind of flabby form.

All his clothes that were sewed with linen yam were lying in separate
portions, the thread having rotten; but such as were sewed with worsted
remained perfectly firm and sound. Among such a confusion, we had hard
work to find out all his pockets, and our guide supposed that, after
all, we did not find above the half of them. In his vest pocket was a
long clasp-knife, very sharp; the haft was thin, and the scales shone
as if there had been silver inside. Mr. Sc--t took it with him, and
presented it to his neighbour, Mr. R--n, of W--n L--e, who still has it
in his possession. We found a comb, a gimblet, a vial, a small neat
square board, a pair of plated knee-buckles, and several samples of
cloth of different kinds, rolled neatly up within one another. At
length, while we were busy on the search, Mr. L--t picked up a leathern
case, which seemed to have been wrapped round and round by some ribbon,
or cord, that had been rotten from it, for the swaddling marks still
remained. Both L--w and B--e called out that "it was the tobacco
spleuchan, and a well-filled ane too"; but, on opening it out, we
found, to our great astonishment, that it contained a printed pamphlet.
We were all curious to see what sort of a pamphlet such a person would
read; what it could contain that he seemed to have had such a care
about. For the slough in which it was rolled was fine chamois leather;
what colour it had been could not be known. But the pamphlet was
wrapped so close together, and so damp, rotten, and yellow that it
seemed one solid piece. We all concluded from some words that we could
make out that it was a religious tract, but that it would be impossible
to make anything of it. Mr. L--w remarked marked that it was a great
pity if a few sentences could not be made out, for that it was a
question what might be contained in that little book; and then he
requested Mr. L--t to give it to me, as he had so many things of
literature and law to attend to that he would never think more of it.
He replied that either of us were heartily welcome to it, for that he
had thought of returning it into the grave, if he could have made out
but a line or two, to have seen what was its tendency.

"Grave, man!" exclaimed L--w, who speaks excellent strong broad Scotch.
"My truly, but ye grave weel! I wad esteem the contents o' that
spleuchan as the most precious treasure. I'll tell you what it is, sir:
I hae often wondered how it was t