The Stickit Minister's Wooing and Other Galloway Stories

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Crockett Samuel Rutherford. The Stickit Minister's Wooing and Other Galloway Stories

THE STICKIT MINISTER'S WOOING1

THE STICKIT MINISTER WINS THROUGH

GIBBY THE EEL, STUDENT IN DIVINITY

DOCTOR GIRNIGO'S ASSISTANT

THE GATE OF THE UPPER GARDEN

THE TROUBLER OF ISRAEL

CARNATION'S MORNING JOY

JAIMSIE

BEADLE AND MARTYR

THE BLUE EYES OF AILIE

LOWE'S SEAT

THE SUIT OF BOTTLE GREEN

A SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM

THE HEMPIE'S LOVE STORY

THE LITTLE FAIR MAN. I. – SEED SOWN BY THE WAYSIDE

THE LITTLE FAIR MAN. II. – THE HUMBLING OF STRENGTH-O'-AIRM

THE LITTLE FAIR MAN. III. – THE CURATE OF KIRKCHRIST

MY FATHER'S LOVE STORY

THE MAN OF WRATH

THE LASS IN THE SHOP

THE RESPECT OF DROWDLE

TADMOR IN THE WILDERNESS

PETERSON'S PATIENT

TWO HUMOURISTS

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It was in the second year of my college life thai I came home to find Robert Fraser, whom a whole country-side called the "Stickit Minister," distinctly worse, and indeed, set down upon his great chair in the corner as on a place from which he would never rise.

A dour, grippy back-end it was, the soil stubborn and untoward with early frost. And a strange sound it was to hear as I (Alexander McQuhirr) came down the Lang Brae, the channel stones droning and dinnelling on the ice by the third of November; a thing which had not happened in our parts since that fell year of the Sixteen Drifty Days, which has been so greatly talked about.

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She gave a little shivering moan.

"I canna gang in there!" she said, clasping her hands piteously; "I darena. Not though I am Gilbert Harbour's wife – and the bairns' mither. Oh, sir, rin!"

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