Oor ain folk times

OOR AIN FOLK
Surroundings — Peat- reek — Char-fishing — The Falls of Unich
— Dr. Guthrie and Auld Jannie — A Shepherd's Biblical Criti-
cism — An Anecdote of Dr. Guthrie's . . Pages 22-32
CHAPTER IV
The Glen School— The Prevalent Kindly Spirit — Farmhouse Life —
Character gauged from a Gastronomic Standpoint — A Stingy-
Mistress — Jock an' the Cheese — Two Parritch Stories — Out-
spokenness : Instances — An Interrupted Grace — Jeems "Wricht
pronounces Doom on Buonaparte — The Minister truly a Re-
presentative of the People — Value of Education — A Succession
of Clerics — My Father and Uncle : their Boyhood and College
Days — Parental Self-Denial — A College Challenge — A Fight
and a Duel — A Brawl at Ballater — The Character of the old
Manse and Old Minister — An Instance of his Quaint Humour
—His Death • . 33-48
CHAPTER V
The Disruption of 1843 — My Father's Disposition — His Share in
the Fight — His Memorials of the Disruption — His Translation
to Edzell in 1841 — Great Increase of Congregation — -Progress of
the Controversy — Lord Panmure and Fox Maule — My Father's
Estimate ofPanmure's Character—' Persecutions for Conscience'
Sake ' — A Sore Bereavement — His Last Sermon in the Parish
Kirk — A Noble Record ' for Conscience' Sake ' — Old Dr. Grant's
Story of ' the Flesh Pots ' — The first Free Church Sermon —
The Tent in the Wilderness — Increasing Hardships and Diffi-
culties — Fidelity of the Flock — Humour under Privations —
Preaching under Difficulties — Hostile Attitude of Opponents
— Progress of the Struggle — Once more in a house of his
own 49-66