i o Saddle and Sir lorn. 



from passing a certain point in the fair with their 

 lambs, and how the latter laid the fellow prostrate in 

 the mud, and when he had extracted an apology, 

 assisted him to rise and gave him sixpence to drink 

 his health. If he scolded his servants or any one else 

 he seldom got beyond, " You Saucester /" (a Scotch 

 word for a kind of pudding) ; but when his preface 

 was " My — Good — Sir" he was felt to be in earnest 

 indeed. Hugh Wyllie, who had been thirty-five years 

 about Dalgig, was often " had in" for a chat at night. 

 He was full of all the country news, and knew many 

 curious stories, two traits which exactly suited his 

 master. The finest scenes took place between " Old 

 Dalgig" and his negro Black Geordie. At one time, 

 Geordie was a sailor, then he cruised about the 

 country selling pebbles and curious stones, and when 

 that game was up, he became a sort of groom to Mr. 

 Campbell, for five-and-twenty years. He was very 

 lazy, and nearly as bad tempered as old Pluto of Gibbet 

 Island, and scenes, rich and rare, took place between 

 him and his master, if the gig was not ready in time. 

 Geordie would think out loud upon these occasions, 

 and it was upon this aggravating habit that issue was 

 joined. 



Mr. Campbell was very fond of reading, but con- 

 fined himself principally to religious works, and more 

 especially to Edward Irving's and Dr. Cumming's. He 

 kept several terms at Glasgow University, where he 

 studied Greek and Latin, and attended the Divinity 

 Hall with no small zest. With a view to going out to 

 China, he began to learn the language, but he was 

 prevailed upon, in consequence of his father's advanced 

 years, to cease from gathering " the blossom of the 

 flying term," and to assist him in his farm duties.* 



* As a breeder of Ayrshires, horses, and sheep he had great expe- 

 rience ; few men were in higher request as a judge at shows in Scotland, 

 and, in 1864, he made his third and last journey to Ireland on the same 



