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Mr Salmon meekly replied that M'Combie might take them if he pleased, he had got nothing to do with that, but he would not. Our Irish friend then exchanged the notes, for he had no want of money. I did not even know the gentleman's name; I never saw him before, and I never, to my knowledge, saw him afterwards.
The gentlemen I buy from know my weakness, and they say, if they are anxious to sell, We must let M'Combie have a "pull." Many are the lots of beasts I have bought and culled, and I had to pay for it. Sellers have served me right. Still there is a fatality follows me that I fear it is hopeless now to endeavour to get over.
"Elliott's Poems." London, 1833. 2. "Poems of Robert Nicoll." Third Edition. Edinburgh, 1843. 3. "Life and Poems of John Bethune." London, 1841. 4. "Memoirs of Alexander Bethune." By W. M'Combie. Aberdeen, 1845. 5. "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver." By William Thorn, of Inverury. Second Edition, London, 1845. 6. "The Purgatory of Suicides." By Thomas Cooper. London, 1845. 7.
Mr M'Combie has taken a very prominent position since the above was written. At the Highland Society's show at Aberdeen he gained the first prize for the best yearling bull, the first prize for the best two-year-old bullock, and other prizes. Colonel Fraser, of Castle Fraser, has also stuck to the Aberdeen and Angus polled cattle.
Alexander survives his brother John only long enough to write his "Memoirs," and then follows; and we have his story given us by Mr. M'Combie, in a simple unassuming little volume not to be read without many thoughts, perhaps not rightly without tears. Mr. M'Combie has been wise enough not to attempt panegyric.
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