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A great find of silver coins of the time of the last Saxon Kings was made in 1866 on Chancton Farm; a ploughman turning up an urn containing over three thousand. This was an effective rebuke to those who laugh at "old wives' tales," for a local tradition of buried treasure must have been in existence for eight hundred years.
Inlaid into the floor of the mausoleum is the gravestone of Burns, the very same that was laid over his grave by Jean Armour, before this monument was built. Stuck against the surrounding wall is a marble statue of Burns at the plough, with the Genius of Caledonia summoning the ploughman to turn poet.
But it is not alone in scenery and architecture that we count England foreign. The constitution of society, the very pillars of the empire, surprise and even pain us. The dull, neglected peasant, sunk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible-quoting ploughman.
"So Flambeau said," he replied, with a sigh. "But consider. The more a man feels lonely the less he can be sure he is alone. It must mean empty spaces round him, and they are just what make him obvious. Have you never seen one ploughman from the heights, or one shepherd from the valleys? Have you never walked along a cliff, and seen one man walking along the sands?
Now of all the pursuits by which a man may earn his living, the nearest to a state of nature is manual labour; of all stations that of the artisan is least dependent on Fortune. The artisan depends on his labour alone, he is a free man while the ploughman is a slave; for the latter depends on his field where the crops may be destroyed by others.
If less CLEVERNESS is required for country affairs, they leave the more room for thinking. There are great and small in every class; here and there is a ploughman that understands Burns, here and there a large-minded shopkeeper, here and there perhaps an unselfish duke.
"But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." Although as yet there was no ploughman nor rain, yet a mist arose from the earth; so where there is not the word of the gospel, there is yet sufficiency of light, to teach men how to govern themselves in civil and natural society.
If it be to vex or annoy my father, can you blame him if he feels both vexed and annoyed at it. "Most sapiently said, Solomon Secundus "'Solomon Lob was a ploughman stout, And a ranting cavalier; And, when the civil war broke out, It quickly did appear That Solomon Lob was six feet high, And fit for a grenadier.
There 's no a doobt but yer Phemy 'ill come hame to ye safe an' soon'." "I was thinkin' aboot Lizzy," said the other, a little astonished; and then the prayer began, and they had to be silent. The sermon of the ploughman was both dull and sensible, an excellent variety where few of the sermons were either; but it made little impression on Mrs Findlay or Mrs Mair.
"Then," she continued, "when you've done for them, year in and year out, off they go, and that's the end of it." "Ah, yes," croaked Mrs. Crabbe; "off they go." "If it isn't one thing," said Mrs. Ploughman, "it's another. "Death is the end of everything," remarked Mrs. Crabbe. "I'm not afraid to die," Mrs. Ploughman declared. "There's things to do the other side of the grave, same as here.
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