CHAPTER XVII 
QUNDAY, ist Jan. 1893.— Of all the hypocritical, 
^ canting humbugs in the wide world the Lowland 
Scotch sectarian is out and away the worst. The bigotry 
without the justice of his covenanting forebears has 
surely come down to him wf muckle aggrandisement. 
Would any one who knows what a Sunday in Dundee 
means, believe that a crew from that godly, radical 
town would be ordered to put aside the laws of 
God to work at seal- 
ing on the Sabbath day? 
Yet so it is, and we 
are told that for this Old 
Testament law-breaking 
we have the sanction of 
a worthy Presbyterian 
minister. Killing seals 
is to-day 'a wark o' na- 
cesseety,' and the crew 
who have been killing 
seals all week, day and 
night, are sent off dog- 
tired to paint the snow 
vermilion. 
Though sealing is ' a wark o' nacesseety/ bawbees 
being gained thereby, * drawing picturrs on the Lord's 
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