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Here, too, the Exhibition bore its fruit in the honour of knighthood conferred on the Lord Provost. On the third morning the travellers left again at eight o'clock, and journeyed as far as Stonehaven, where the royal carriages met them, and conveyed them to Balmoral, which was reached by half-past six.
At Stonehaven station, where we stopped a few minutes, there was quite a gathering of the inhabitants to exchange greetings, and afterwards, at successive stations along the road, many a kindly face and voice made our journey a pleasant one. When we got into Dundee it seemed all alive with welcome. We went in the carriage with the lord provost, Mr.
'I wad hae cawed Reid Rorie ower the heid o' 'm, an' left him lyin' the coorse villain! The horses never flagged till they drew up in the main street of Stonehaven. Robert ran down to the harbour to make inquiry, and left Shargar to put them up. The moon had risen, but the air was so full of vapour that she only succeeded in melting the darkness a little.
After the first fire the seconds stopped proceedings; but Mr Innes's mother had intercepted a letter, which she gave to her son after the first duel, and Mr Innes forthwith sent another challenge to Cruickshank. They fought again at Bourtreebush, half-way between Aberdeen and Stonehaven.
The carriages stopped in an instant within 300 yards of the inn; several gentlemen alighted and walked into the nearest field, and in a few minutes shots were twice exchanged, one party and carriage leaving twenty minutes before the other, in the direction of Stonehaven.
I heard auld Horny say something aboot lyin' to there for a bit, to tak a keg or something aboord. The boys looked at each other, bade Alan good-night, and walked away. 'Hoo far is 't to Stonehaven, Shargar? said Robert. 'I dinna richtly ken. Maybe frae twal to fifteen mile. Robert stood still. Shargar saw his face pale as death, and contorted with the effort to control his feelings.
He took a great delight in driving the "Defiance," wearing the red coat with the "Defiance" buttons; and on one occasion he drove the mail from London to Stonehaven out and out. His horses were the strongest and his fields the largest in the country. He said "he did not like a field in which the cattle could see one another every day."
John Thom of Uras, Stonehaven, was also one of the firm that lost heavily, and has always, to his credit, paid 20s. in the pound. It was a saying of an old friend of mine that no great breeder or great cattle-dealer ever died rich; and this has held good in the great majority of cases. John Elliot and William Brown bought largely of our Aberdeen cattle, and attended Aikey Fair as well as Falkirk.
Learned societies honored him, and the illustrious Charles Darwin called him "my fellow botanist." The mother of John Duncan, a "strong, pretty woman," as he called her, lived in a poor tenement at Stonehaven, on the Scottish coast, and supported herself by weaving stockings at her own home, and in the summer went into the harvest field.
Two or three sentences in this chapter are memorized from a sermon I heard years ago, preached by Rev. H. E. Michie, M.A., of Stonehaven. "He is despised and rejected of men." Isaiah liii. 3. Some two or three years ago the picture, "He was despised and rejected," by Sigismund Göetze, was on view in Glasgow.
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