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at best, of oatmeal cakes and water, played havoc with 

 a strong body, so that at sixty-three, Thomas Edward 

 is an old and crippled man. 



In the same book is told the touching story of this 

 man's loneliness and disappointments : how, under the 

 pinch of hard times, he had, again and again, to sell 



the collections he had so laboriously made, which he 

 straightway set to making over again, like Robert 

 Bruce' s spider ; and how the prophet, honoured as he 

 was by wise and famous men far away, was not 

 honoured in his own country — Banff bailies, and Banff 



