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About the beginning of this century he closed his mortal toils, being found on the highway near Lockerby, in Dumfries-shire, exhausted and just expiring. The old white pony, the companion of all his wanderings, was standing by the side of his dying master.
Peter; while maister is for haeing you it a bank or twa in your pouch, and add Ellenmount to Lockerby, and " "And if I could, Janet?" "Tut, tut, lad! If it werna for 'if' you might put auld Scotland in a bottle." "But what was the upshot, Janet?" "I canna tell. God alone understan's quarreling folk."
Lockerby was now tearful and patient under her disappointment, everyone knows that tears and patience may be a miserable kind of comfort.
Thus thinking, he opened the door of his uncle's private room, and said cheerily, "Good morning, uncle." "Good morning, Davie. Your father is here." Then Andrew Lockerby came forward, and his son met him with outstretched hands and paling cheeks. "What is it, father? Mother? Mary? Is she dead?" "'Deed, no, my lad. There's naething wrang but will turn to right.
"Odd, sir," answered the farmer, "we tried that three times already that's twice on the land add ance at Lockerby fair. But I dinna ken we're baith gey good at single-stick, and it couldna weel be judged." "Then take broadswords, and be d-d to you, as your fathers did before you," said the counsel learned in the law. "Aweel, sir, if ye think it wadna be again the law, it's a' ane to Dandie."
'No! no! that will never do, said Pleydell. 'Confound you, why don't you take good cudgels and settle it? 'Odd, sir, answered the farmer, 'we tried that three times already, that's twice on the land and ance at Lockerby Fair. But I dinna ken; we're baith gey good at single-stick, and it couldna weel be judged.
Then he went on working more eagerly than ever, turning his tens of thousands into hundreds of thousands and adding acre to acre, and farm to farm, until Lockerby was the richest estate in Annandale.
He could hardly understand the struggle going on in his father's heart the wish to say something that might quiet his own conscience, and yet not make David's unnecessarily tender. It is hard serving God and Mammon, and Andrew Lockerby was miserable and ashamed that morning in the service. And yet he was not selfish in the matter that much in his favor must be admitted.
Andrew really believed that David's first duty was to the house of Lockerby. He had sacrificed a great deal toward this end all his own life, nor were his sacrifices complete with the resignation of his only child to the same purpose. To a man of more than sixty years of age it is a great trial to have an unusual and unhappy atmosphere in his home; and though Mrs.
Train, however, procured for me far more extensive information concerning this singular person, whose name was Patterson, than I had been able to acquire during my short conversation with him. It is more than twenty years since Robert Patterson's death, which took place on the high road near Lockerby, where he was found exhausted and expiring.
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