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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black 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 III. SAUNDERS MALCOLMSON AT HOME. That Saunders Malcolmson was a man of upright principle, and correct habits of life, was a thing that nobody 'who knew him would for a moment have called in question. Indeed, but for his own decided refusal, he might have occupied the position of an elder of the lurk; and had he chosen to accept that sacred function not a single parishioner would have dared to gainsay his fitness for it. As it was, although Saundcrs declined ecclesiastical office, the public verdict was altogether in his favour. True, the standard of judgment was not vitally affected by questions of ecclesiastical standing, or of religious principle. It was a very practical standard; and the estimate of a rational human life therein implied was of a very tangible and comprehensible sort. Saunders Malcolmson had sat for the greater part of a nineteen in the possession of Skellach Brae. By his own industry and thrift he had carved out his position; for he too, as has been said, had occupied the place of a farm labourer, and in that capacity had amassed the means that enabled him to climb to the rank above it. He was an industrious, skilful, and successful farmer; whereas his predecessor in the haudin he occupied had fallen somewhat short in the latter particular at least. But that was not exactly the way in which Saunders's neighbours put it. What they said was in this wise -- Weel, man, I ees't to think Skellach Brae a weirdless scaup. Geordie Paip, they say, never did nae gweed upon 't. Hand yer tongue ! Forbyse to dee gweed, he cudna de'en muckle vvaur. Nae, man; he...

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