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pected. Because Jock Young could drink and swear 

 and quarrel, they had thought that the emotional feel- 

 ing within the rough bosom was incapable of any other 

 form of expression ; but, when Jock had been told the 

 site of the grave ; when, as the parish choir, who had 

 met for their weekly practising, between the gloamin' 

 an' the light, sang 



Guide me, oh ! them great Jehovah, 

 Pilgrim through this barren land 



the poor homer was seen casting himself with wildly 

 despairing moans and lamentations above the spot by 

 the White Kirk, where the remains of Tib Doo lay, it 

 was not wonderful if the more susceptible of them 

 should start at the gleam of intense realism cast athwart 

 the familiar words. Nor would it have been in the 

 spirit of Christian charity either to deny to the hapless 

 half-civilised wanderer a word of respectful sympathy ; 

 or to hold him incapable of genuine human affection, 

 as well as some dim longing after the spiritual life. 



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