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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Yer can't interfere wi' me nohow, an' I dessay it riles ye a bit, for ye loves interferin' with ivery sort o' folk, as all the parsons do. I b'longs to no parish, an' aint under you no more than Tom o' the Gleam be, an' we both thanks the Lord for't! An' I'm earnin' a livin' my own way an' bein' a benefit to the sick an' sorry, which aint so far from proper Christianity. Lor', Parson Arbroath!
"By the law we needn't go till eleven, though Miss Tranter does halve it," said Bill Bush sulkily "and perhaps we won't!" Mr. Arbroath fixed him with a stern glance. "Do you know that I am here in the cause of Temperance?" he said. "Oh, are ye? Then why don't ye call on Squire Evans, as is the brewer wi' the big 'ouse yonder?" queried Bill defiantly. "'E's the man to go to!
Andrew's, of Lord James Hamilton son of the Earl of Arran and a follower of Knox as abbot of Arbroath, of John Stuart abbot of Coldingham, of the son of the Duke of Argyll as bishop-elect of Brechin, together with a number of other laymen, who, though holding high office in the Church, were determined to promote the new movement for the sake of the property that they hoped to obtain.
"There's one too many 'ere for pleasantness, an' I'm goin'. Good-den, Tom! Good-den, all!" And out he strode, whistling as he went. With his departure every one began to move, the more quickly as the clock in the bar had struck ten a minute or two since. The Reverend Mr. Arbroath stood irresolute for a moment, wishing his chief enemy, "Feathery" Joltram, would go.
The nearest town to the lighthouse is that of Aberbrothock, or Arbroath, in Forfarshire, about eleven miles distant. A handsome cutter, called ‘The Pharos,’ is stationed here as a tender to the lighthouse. This vessel goes off to the rock every fortnight, or in the course of each set of spring-tides, to relieve the light-keepers and to supply the house with fuel, provisions, &c.
"I believe they would," said the lieutenant, "for they have become a race of heroes since the great day of the Battle of Arbroath.
The scene in the beacon when the contents of the packet were delivered was interesting. Those who had none read the newspapers, and those who had neither papers nor letters listened. "ARBROATH, etcetera. "DARLING RUBY, I have just time to tell you that we have made a discovery which will surprise you. Let me detail it to you circumstantially.
The frame was then gently lowered into the water, and floated off to the Smeaton to be towed to Arbroath, to be applied as part of the materials in the erection of the lightkeepers' houses. After the removal of the bridge, the aspect of things at the rock was much altered.
The scene in the beacon when the contents of the packet were delivered was interesting. Those who had none read the newspapers, and those who had neither papers nor letters listened. "ARBROATH, &c. "DARLING RUBY, I have just time to tell you that we have made a discovery which will surprise you. Let me detail it to you circumstantially.
According to a tradition, a bell had been once hung upon this rock by an abbot of Arbroath, "and being taken down by a sea-pirate, a year thereafter he perished upon the same rock, with ship and goods, in the righteous judgment of God."
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