Oor ain folk times

JOHN IN INDIA 259
wards served a long apprenticeship in St. Margaret's
Locomotive Works, near Edinburgh ; then worked for
a time at marine engineering at Plymouth, and took
charge as engineer of an expedition despatched to
St. Vigo Bay, to try to recover some sunken Spanish
treasure galleons. This not resulting in a success
he went out to India, where he was for many years
a successful tea - planter ; and he has now retired to
enjoy a comfortable leisure in his native village,
where he leads the life of a cannie country gentle-
man, and dispenses hospitality in the very house in
which he was born, with all the kindliness and
heartiness for which his father and grandfather before
him were famed.
John was next on the list. In some respects he
was perhaps the best equipped, intellectually, of the
whole family. He was set apart by the old couple
for the ministry. He passed through his university
course with distinction ; took the degree of Master
of Arts ; received his theological training in the Free
Church College, and while yet very young was ap-
pointed to the charge of the Scottish Orphanage in
Bombay as Principal. After a short time he entered
the service of the Government of India, and was
appointed Inspector for the important educational
district of Eoy Bareilly. Here, during the deadly
cholera season of 1878, my gallant young brother
fell a victim to that terrible scourge, and died nobly
doing his duty. His young wife — a niece of the
celebrated George Gilfillan — and her infant daughter
had been sent away up to the hill station of Nynee
Tal, while poor Jack remained at his post in Fyzabad.