Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

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a ghlinne so. ’’ And who can doubt that:
M‘ D. himself would have been found ably
filling the chair as Master of the Revels,-
with a quotation from his writings ever
ready on his tongue wherewith to “point
a moral” or “adorn a taler Needless to
say that he married and begat progeny.
After he had thus gracefully discharged the
chief duties incumbent on every respect¬
able and Christian man, viz. those of mak¬
ing money and begetting children, his event¬
ful life drew to its peaceful close, and the in¬
animate form of the departed Author, hav¬
ing no doubt first been respectably waked,
was laid solemnly to rest under the shad¬
ow of that ‘Killin’s Inn’ he wrote so loving¬
ly of, by the sorrowing though perhaps not
over sober company which form the staple
of the average Highland funeral. He lies
buried in Killin Churchyard.
Thus far for M‘ D. biographically.
Next as to the history of his book. This
has already been partially told us in elo¬
quent though perhaps not in strictly gram¬
matical language, by the Great Unknown
whom M‘ D. persuaded to become his pub¬
lisher. This wiseacre, whoever he may
have been, has however done us a service..