268 RECOURSE TO SAVINGS BANK. CHAP. xm. 



can I do for that good man and his wife and 

 family?" . . . 



Mr. Peach went on to say that a great many 

 Glut-men were employed at Wick harbour, to patrol 

 the shore night and day, and prevent the landing of 

 brandy, tobacco, and other excisable articles ; that 

 he could give Edward employment for a time at that 

 work, but that it could not be permanent. His age 

 was beyond that which would allow of his being 

 appointed a tidewaiter. Mr. Peach added " I will 

 not lose sight of the appointment of subcuratorship. 

 This would be the very thing. If 40 or 50 a 

 year could be obtained, that would be glorious !" 



These suggestions ended in disappointment. 

 Edward could not remove to Wick to accept a tem- 

 porary appointment ; and the subcuratorship could 

 not be obtained. He therefore went on with his old 

 work Natural History and shoemaking. But he 

 must have been pressed by the growing wants of his 

 family, as we find his collection of birds advertised 

 for sale at the beginning of 1855. Again he had re- 

 course to his Savings Bank ; and again it relieved 

 him, though he parted with the results of his work 

 during many laborious years. 



He still went on writing for the periodicals. At 

 the end of 1855 we find an article of his in the Zoo- 

 logist, entitled " Moth-hunting ; or an Evening in a 

 Wood;" and in the following year he commenced in 

 the same periodical " A List of the Birds of Banff- 



