BATHER OLD, BUT GOOD.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3104, 29 January 1879, Page 1

BATHER OLD, BUT GOOD.

Concerning the longbow, do American effort, can surpass one that comes to us Troin ScotlairdT Itf was~tbld-thair Colonel Andrew M'Dowall, when he returned from the war, was one day walking along by the Myroch, when he came on an old man sitting greetin' on a muckle stane at the roadside. When he came up, the old man rose and took off his bonnet and said : " Ye're welcome bame again, laird." " Thank you," said the Colonel; adding, after a pause, "I should surely know your face. Aren't you Nathan M'Culloch P" " Ye're richt, 'deed," said Nathan; "it's just me, laird." "You must be a good age, now, Nathan," says the Colonel. "I'm no verra aul' yet, laird," was | th» reply; " I'm just turnt a hunner." "A hundred!" says the Colonel, musing; " well, you must be all that. But the idea of a man of a hundred sitting blubberiug that way 1 What ever could you get to cry about ?" "It was my father lashed me, sir," said Nathan, blubbering again; " an' he put me oot, so he did." "Your father! " said the Colonel; "is your father alive yet P " "Leevin! ay," replied Nathan; "I ken that the day tae me sorrow." •'Where is he?" says the Colonel. "What an age he must be! I would like to see." " Ob, he's up in the barn, there," says Nathan ; " an' no in a horrid gude humor the noo, aitber." They went up to thebarn together, and found the father busy threshing the barley with the big flail and tearing on fearful. Seeing Nathan and the laird coming in, he stopped and saluted the colonel, who, after inquiring how he was, asked him what he had struck Nathan for. " The young rascal 1" says the father, " there's nae doom' wi' him ; he's never oot o' mischief. I had tae lick him this mornin' for throwin' stanes at bin grandfather! " :--- , '■'