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be what other people seem to be, or he is looked upon 

 as a sort of reprobate. 



We have been told why Dick abstained from going 

 to church. Miss Dick, his half-sister, says that the 

 singing caused him giddiness, and that he had some feel- 

 ing in his head which prevented him sitting in church. 

 Another says that he considered the sermons which he 

 heard to be only " cauld kail het again ; " * and that he 

 could study the Bible and read his sermons just as well 

 at home. Indeed, his library was full of religious works. 

 He had seven Bibles and a Latin Testament, with vari- 

 ous commentaries on the Scriptures. His library included 

 a set of Bible maps, and the works of Josephus, Mosheim, 

 Locke, Kitto, Hervey, Wardlaw, and others. 



Dick had been a diligent attender of the Established 

 Church until the Disruption in 1843. He had a wonder- 

 ful memory, a large vein of humour, and even a good 

 deal of mimicry. He could, upon occasion, give a head 

 or two of the discourses ; and for that matter, a whole 

 sermon of several of the ministers of the town and 

 neighbourhood, with the gesture, and accent, and pecu- 

 liarities of each, to perfection. His old servant used to 

 say, that if she wanted a sermon she had not far to go to 

 get one. " Tae hear my maister sometimes," she would 

 say, " you wud think you were hearing Mr. Cook of Eeay 

 or Mr. Munro of Halkirk preaching frae the tent on the 

 Thursday o' the Sacrament." 



But we have received another account, from a verit- 

 able person, as to the reasons why Dick ceased to attend 

 * Cold soup re-warmed. 



