Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the Psalmist's farthest limit to an average life-rate. Our men made no difference in their clothes for summer or winter, Drumsheugh and one or two of the larger farmers condescending to a topcoat on Sabbath, as a penalty of their position, and without regard to temperature. They wore their blacks at a funeral, refusing to cover them with anything, out of respect to the deceased, and standing longest in the ...
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Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the Psalmist's farthest limit to an average life-rate. Our men made no difference in their clothes for summer or winter, Drumsheugh and one or two of the larger farmers condescending to a topcoat on Sabbath, as a penalty of their position, and without regard to temperature. They wore their blacks at a funeral, refusing to cover them with anything, out of respect to the deceased, and standing longest in the kirkyard when the north wind was blowing across a hundred miles of snow. If the rain was pouring at the Junction, then Drumtochty stood two minutes longer through sheer native dourness till each man had a cascade from the tail of his coat, and hazarded the suggestion, halfway to Kildrummie, that it had been "a bit scrowie," a "scrowie" being as far short of a "shoor" as a "shoor" fell below "weet."
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Fair. Foreword by Alexander Woollcott. Unpaginated. Clean text. Former owner's name inside, clean text. Rubbing to the covers, paste down title is peeling on the spine.
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Good. No Jacket. Book Cover has edgewear and light marks, fading on endpapers. An unforgettable short story written in the late 19th Century about a Scottish country doctor.
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Good. Later printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. SLIPCASE IN ACCEPTABLE CONDITION. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good+ Hardcover with the original slipcase, Foreword by Alexander Woolcott, two attractive illustrations and a front cover cameo of Johann Gutenberg, the cloth binding is tanned on the spine, no other remarkable flaws, the illustrated slipcase is in Good only condition, it has two seam-splits on the top edge and some wear at bottom and top of spine; 87 pages.
This short set of stories, part of the author's longer compilations set in the fictional Perthshire town of Drumtochty, is inexpressibly moving and beautiful. The language is largely in Scots dialect - a speech which has nearly died out, but which shares an ancestor with modern English. Although the stories are set in a devoutly Christian milieu, it is their spiritual beauty which is so striking. I challenge anyone to read these without tears, not of sorrow but of something simpler and purer.
