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Meanwhile the worthy Mr Swinton, having observed in me a curiosity towards books of history and piety, had taken great pains to instruct me in the rights and truths of religion, and to make it manifest alike to the ears and eyes of my understanding, that no human authority could, or ought to, dictate in matters of faith, because it could not discern the secrets of the breast, neither know what was acceptable to Heaven in conduct or in worship.
Sir Thomas had married in 1819 a daughter of Sir Henry Hay Makdougall of Makerstoun, Bart. Sir Thomas died at Brisbane House, Ayrshire, in January 1860, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. For an account of this family see The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets, 4to, 1883, a privately printed volume by A.C. Swinton of Kimmerghame.
From this time forward Brewster seems to have manifested the keenest interest in all questions connected with the origin and history of a substance possessing such singular physical properties. By the aid of Mr. Swinton, secretary to the government at Calcutta, he formed a large and interesting collection of all the different varieties of tabasheer from various parts of India.
"I know," cried Omrah, who immediately ran to the assistance of the baboon; and after a little more scraping, he pulled out a live tortoise about a foot long. "I have heard that when the pools dry up, the tortoises remain in the mud till the pools are filled up again," said Swinton. "Are they good eating, Swinton?" "Excellent." "Turtle soup in the desert, that's something unexpected."
The promptness of these movements of the Confederate commander is noticed by Northern writers. Swinton, in "Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac."
According to the usage among us, from the time when Mr Swinton was thrust from the ministry, the parish had assembled, on the third Lord's Day of May, in the year 1665, under the big sycamore-tree at Zachariah Smylie's gable, and which has ever since been reverenced by the name of the Poopit Tree.
"Well, you may tell them, as a punishment, I shall stop their tobacco for a week." "Better not now, sir," said Bremen, thoughtfully; "the men don't like to go further up the country, and they may be troublesome." "I think so too," said Swinton; "you must recollect that the cask was running out, and the temptation was too strong. I should overlook it this time.
Shall we return at once?" "By all means," said Mr. Swinton; "we have but to get our mattresses and a few other articles." "Leave my man to do all that," said the Major; "he is used to it. In India we almost live in tents when up the country. But here comes one that I should know; Maxwell, I believe?"
The color of the ink used by the forger was not the same as that in the signature. It had darkened perceptibly and swiftly. An undoubted forgery! It was beyond imagination that Mrs. Swinton, the wife of the rector, could stoop to a fraud. Surely, only a man would write heavily and thickly like that. It was a clumsy alteration. Dick Swinton had tampered with his grandfather's figures.
As Swinton wanted the animal for a specimen, it was placed on the back of the horse which Omrah rode as usual, and one of the Hottentots went off with it to the camp, which was not more than three miles distant.
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