Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)

For two years it had been notorious in the square that Saml Dickie was thinking of courting Tnowheads Bell, and that if Little Sanders Elshioner (which is the Thrums pronunciation of Alexander Alexander) went in for her, he might prove a formidable rival. Saml was a weaver in the tenements, and Sanders a coal-carter, whose trade-mark was a bell on his horses neck that told when coal was coming. Being something of a public man, Sanders had not, perhaps, so high a social position as Saml, but he had succeeded his father on the coal-cart, while the weaver had already tried several trades. It had always been against Saml, too, that once when the kirk was vacant he had advised the selection of the third minister who preached for it on the ground that it became expensive to pay a large number of candidates. The scandal of the thing was hushed up, out of respect for his father, who was a God-fearing man, but Saml was known by it in Lang Tammass circle. The coal-carter was called Little Sanders to distinguish him from his father, who was not much more than half his size. He had grown up with the name, and its inapplicability now came home to nobody. Samls mother had been more far-seeing than Sanderss. Her man had been called Sammy all his life because it was the name he got as a boy, so when their eldest son was born she spoke of him as Saml while still in the cradle. The neighbours imitated her, and thus the young man had a better start in life than had been granted to Sammy, his father. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 2588
Author: Aytoun, William Edmondstoune
Release Date: Apr 4, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English