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Scottish Folk-Lore; Or, Reminiscences of Aberdeenshire From Pinafore to Gown
Scottish FolkLore Or Reminiscences of Aberdeenshire From Pinafore to Gown Author:Duncan Anderson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: J.S. Tait and sons Subjects: Aberdeenshire (Scotland) Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Reference / Genealogy Notes: This is a bl... more »ack and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THE DOMINIE. And still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew. -- Goldsmith. In the tall house on the opposite side of the gate lived the Reverend Louis Alexander Daff, M. A., the parish schoolmaster. At the time I first recollect the Reverend Louis, he had retired from some of the duties of active life, and, in consequence, employed an assistant, who attended to parochial duties, while he himself enjoyed the major part of the revenue that made the parish schoolmaster an envied man. But, notwithstanding that the old dominie had not, for several years, wielded the taws in training the young ideas of Sillerton how to shoot, yet his history was peculiarly green in the memories of his contemporaries, and how often has the writer of this listened to the quaint stories of his life, and the peculiar traits of character that he had shown during an incumbency that had exceeded half a century! Could we but hear the village worthies, as they gathered in the smithy on certain occasions, or while they crowded the merchant's shop on a Saturday evening, telling anecdotes of the old pedagogue, it would be a treat that Max O'Rell himself might long to enjoy. " Weel, he may be a very douce man noo, but, by ray certie, he wisna aye that," and so out the story came, amongst many others, of how Louis preached his first sermon at Sillerton; in f...« less