Autobiographical reminiscences Author:James Paterson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. S Whitsunday came to hand, Mr Lochore disposed of his stock, preparatory to going to Glasgow. I heard that he afterwards went to London but I was ... more »told lately that he died the other day in Glasgow. I was the only one of his Kilmarnock apprentices who continued at the printing business. By Mr Lochore's influence, I was transferred to the Courier Office in Ayr. This newspaper was begun and carried on by the Rev. Mr Cuthill, one of the ministers of the Old Church. Archibald and James Bell had been his chief managers in the business, and things did not go well with him. He had to compound with his creditors, and gave up a portion of his stipend, by way of satisfying their demands. By this time my brothers, John and Robert, were both resident in Kilmarnock. They were intimate with John Curie, coach-driver of the Telegraph between Ayr and Kilmarnock, and being themselves " knights of the whip," easily procured for me a seat to the county town. Through their influence, the Curie family interested themselves in finding lodgings for me. On my arrival, I was accordingly handed over to a friend of theirs, in Garden Street, called He must have been well advanced in years, perhaps about 76. " Aunty Betty," a good sort of woman, somewhat advanced in years, but still active and lithe of limb. She was rather talkative at times, and I knew most of her history ere long. She had married, late in life, an old seaman, of the name of Neil M'Callum, who had passed most of his life on board one of the King's cutters. Old Neil was somewhat testy, but generally had the worst of it when he tried a fall with his wife. She was too clever for him. They were both dissenters, and belonged to the now all but extirpated race of Cameronians. She was a Cameronian by descent as well as principle....« less