Books with author Helen MacGregor

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ENGLISH GAUGER. THE ENGLISH GAUGER. I. The Coming Of The Gauger. There was an unusual stir at the Brig. It was Saturday afternoon, about the time when the mailcoach from Dunkeld was expected to arrive. The coach was understood to be due at four o'clock, but it was often two hours later than that before it drew up, opposite Mclntyre's Inn, at the west side of the Brig. Peter Morrison was kind to his beasts. He did not trouble himself much about the comfort or convenience of his passengers; these were always secondary considerations with him. If the horses were in good heart, the journey might be accomplished within half an hour of the time that was supposed to be allowed for it. But Peter would never press his team. The question of time and pace was always left to the horses themselves; equine decision on that point was sovereign and final. There were whispers about the Glen of the artifices by which Peter soothed the feelings of impatient passengers. He turned their ire with a toothsome tale or a pawky bit of flattery, but the pace upon which his leader had decided was never by any chance disturbed. No Glen man dreamed of suggesting that Peter should put a sharper note into the crack of his whip, and shorten the breathing-time at the top of Dalguise hill. It was the sportsmen from the south, on their way to the Castle or one of the shooting-lodges, who ventured upon those items of advice. Only in their first season, however; for after one journey they discovered that Peter's driving-rules--as Colonel Hughes, the sporting tenant of Balranald, once put it--were like the laws of the Medes and Persians. The knowledge of Scripture implied in the Colonel's remark was a slender basis on which to rest an opinion about his spiritual...

Excerpt from The Souter's Lamp: And Other StoriesThe Glen folk liked to appear in their new boots for the first time at the Kirk. This made Saturday the Souter's busiest day. But the week's work was generally finished by eight o'clock on Saturday evening. The Souter liked a quiet talk, and Saturday evening was the time when people had an hour to spare. Between eight and ten o'clock there were usually three or four cronies seated about the kitchen ingle.As the big clock, which choked the passage between the room and the kitchen, rumbled out the strokes of eight, the Souter rose from his bench with a sigh of relief. He first swept the week's clippings into a corner, and then hung his apron on a nail behind the door. His wife came in when she heard him stirring, and took the boots that were to be called for into the kitchen. At a quarter past eight, after he had washed his face and hands in the tub that stood outside the kitchen door and caught the water off the roof, the Souter carried the big lamp in from the workshop and hung it carefully on the knob of the kitchen window shutter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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