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The Verra Look o' Him wes Vic.ory Weeping by Her Man's Hedside For Such Risks of Life, Men Get the Victo- ria Cross in Other Fields . Hopps' Laddie Ate Grosarts 'Inhere werna Mair than Four at Nicht A' doot Yir Gaein' tae Lose Her, Tamrnas The Bonniest, Snoddest, Kindliest Lass in the Glen . . . . The Winter Night was Falling Fast Comin' tae Meet Me in the (lloamin' I'AdK n 21 23 26 28 31 35 4^ 47 53 57 59 60 "? ILLUSTRATIONS It's oot o' the Question, Jess, sae Hurry up It's a Fell Chairge for a Short Day's Work The East had Come to Meet the West MacLure Explained that it would be an Eventful Journey, They Passed through the Shallow Water without Mishap .... A Heap of Speechless Misery by the Kit- chen Fire ..... Ma ain Dear Man .... I'm Proud to have Met You Gave Way Utterly .... Fillin' His Lungs for Five and Thirty Year v/i' Strong Drumtochtv Air . Bell Leant Over the Bed A Large Tub The Lighted Window in Saunder's Cottage \ Clenched Fist Resting on the Bed The Doctor was Attempting the Highland Fling Sleepin' on the Top o' Her Bed . A' Prayed Last Nicht .... PAGB 68 71 75 77 81 85 89 97 lOu 103 107 no "3 117 119 121 ILLUSTRATIONS I've a Cold in My Head To-night . Jess Bolted without Delay Comin' in Frae Olen Urtach Drunisheugh was Full of Tact Told Drunisheugh that the Doctor was not Able to Rise • • • With the Old Warm Gri}) Drunisheugh Looked Wistfully Wud Gie Ker a Bite o' Grass Ma Mithei's Bible It's a Coorse Nicht, Jess . She's Carryin' a Licht in Her Hand The Tochty Ran with Black, Swollen Stream . Toiled Across the (;ien There was Nae Use Trying tae Dig Oot the Front Door Ane of Them Gied Ower the Head in a Drift, and His Neeburs bed tae pu' Him oot . Tv'o Men in Plaids were Descending the Hill I'AfiE J 28 160 163 173 176 181 ■Hi ILLUSTRATIONS Jined Hands and Cam ower Fine Twa Horses, Ane afore the Ither He had Left His Overcoat, and was in Black Death after All was Victor . She Began to Neigh .... They had Set to Work Standing at the Door .... Finis ... PAGE 184 187 197 199 202 203 209 $ PREFACE It is with great good will that I write this short preface to the edition of " A Doctor of the Old School " (which has been illustrated by Mr. Gordon after an admirable and under- standing fashion) because there are two things that I should like to say to my readers, being also my friends. One, is to answer a question that has been often and fairly asked. Was there ever any doctor so self-forgetful and so utterly Chris- tian as William MacLure? To which I am proud to reply, on my conscience : Not one man, but many in Scotland and in the South country. I will dare prophecy also across the sea. It has been one man's g^ood fortune to know 7 PKIilACE fmir country doctors, „ot one of whom was w.tliout Ins fauIts-Wcclum was not perfect —but who, each one, mi^.ht have sat for my hero. Three are now resting from tlieir labors, and the fourtli, if he ever should see these h'nes, would never identify himself. Tlien I desire to thank my readers, and chieHy the medical professsion for the recep- tion oivcn to the Doctor of Drumtoclity. For many years I luive desired to pay some tribute to a class whose service to the community was known to every countryman, but after the tale had gone forth my heart failed. For it nn'ght have been despised for the little grace of letters in the style and because of the outward roughness of the man. But neither his biographer nor his circum- stances have been able to obscure MacLure who has himself won all honest hearts, and received afresh the recognition of his more distinguished brethren. From all parts of the 8 PREFACE Kn^.Ii,sh-,speal<,„j, „.o,l,l letters Ikuc c„,ne i„ con„ne„d,tio„ofVVcelu,nM,cLu,e.a„d„,a„y were from doctor,, nho ,,,,.1 .eceived now couraj^e. It i,, ,^,,^y „,„,^ ,,^„^,. ,,^_,_^^ _^ _^^^^ ^■ntcr could ever have deserved to receive the approbation of a profession whose charity pt,ts us all to shame. ' May I take this first opportunity to declare how deeply my te,rt has been touched by tl,e favor shown to a sin.ple book by the An.eri- 7" '.""'"^' •^"" '" -P>-' n.y Lope that one 'aird tliat the doctor " gied the gudcman an awfii' clear- in'," and that Hillocks <' wes keepin' the 23 A DOCTOR (JF THE OLD SCHOOL hoose," which meant that the patient liad tea breakfast, and at that time was wandering about the farm buildings in an easy undress with his head in a plaid. It was impossible for a doctcM* to earn even the most modest competence from a people of such scandalous health, and so MacLure had annexed neighbouring parishes. His house — little more than a cottage — stood on the road- side iimong the pines towards the head of our Glen, and from this base of operations he dominated the wild glen that broke the wall of the Grampians above Drumtochty — where the snow drifts were twelve feet deep in win- ter, and the only way of passage at times was the channel of the river — and the moorland district westwards till he came to the Dunleith sphere of influence, where there were four doc- tors and a hydropathic. Drumtochty in its length, which was eight miles, and its breadth, which was four, lay in his hand ; besides a 24 f: A GENERA r. PRACTITIONER glen behind, unknown to iJic uork!. uhicli in the night time lie visited at the risk of life, for tl^c ^^•a>' thereto was across the big moor with Its peat holes and treacherous bogs. And he held the land eastwards towards Muirtown so far as Geordie, the Drumtochty post, travelled every day, and could carry word that the doc- tor was wanted. He did his best for the need of every man, woman and child in this wild straggling district, ycav in, year out, in the' ^now and in the heat, in the dark and in the light, without rest, and without holiday for forty years. One horse could not do the work of this ■nan, but we hked best to sec him on his old " Inte mare, who died the ueek after her mas- tor, and the passing of the two did our hearts good. It wa,, not that he rode beautifully for he broke every canon of art, flying with "" ■■"™'' ''°°P''ng till he seemed to be speak- ">g ".to Jesss ears, and rising in the saddle h I i ! A DOCTOK ()!• TIIK OLD SCHOOL beyond all necessity. But he could rise faster, stay longer in the saddle, and had a firmer grip with his knees than any one I ever 26 ■ '!' ' A UENEKAL I'KACTITK )Ni:k met, and it was all for mercy's sake. When the reapers in harvest time saw a figure whirl- ing past in a cloud of dust, or the family at the foot of Glen Urtach, gathered round the fire on a winter's night, heard the rattle of a horse's hoofs on the road, or the shepherds, out after the sheep, traced a black speck moving across the snow to the upper glen, they knew it was the doctor, and, without being conscious of it, wished him God speed. Before and behind his saddle were strapped the instruments and medicines the doctor might want, for he ne\er knew what was be- fore him. There were no specialists in Drum- tochty, so this man had to do evervthin HI ll.i I! I l! i!!!: " 11 ii li Plf' 1 A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL scar that cut into his right eyebrow and gave him such a sinister expression, was got one night Jess slipped on the ice and laid him insensible eight miles from home. His limp marked the big snowstorm in the fifties, when his horse missed the road in Glen Urtach, and they roiled together in a drift. MacLure escaped with a broken Ic; and the fracture of three ribs, but he never walked like other men again. He could not swing himself into the saddle without making two attempts and hold- ing Jess's mane. Neither can you " warstle " through the peat bogs and snow drifts for forty winters without a touch of rheumatism. But they were honorable scars, and for such risks of life men get the Victoria Cross in other fields. MacLure got nothing buc t. crret af- fection of the Glen, which knew ,' at none had ever done one-tenth as much for it as this ungainly, twisted, battered figure, and I have 34 ;,:i;i!: " FOK SUCH KISKS til-' Lll'li MliN (,l I Till-; VKTllKIA CROSS IN nTIIKK IIELUS" ^!!il!l! ! ! i I !i in II i I i :!!l!r ^m mm ill 11 lit 1 j 1 'i i .iX ^H H[ ■ I Hmhh m|hmm^^^ A GENERAL rKACTITIUNEK •seen a Drumtochty face soften at ihe sight of iMacLure limphv^ to liis liorse. Mr. Hopps earned tlie ill-uill of the Glen for ever by criticising the doctor's dress, but indeed it would ha-'e filled any townsman with ama.e- "^"'^^- ^^'^-^^' ^^^ ----- once a year, on Sacra- ment Sunday, and, if possible, at a funeral • topcoat or waterproof never. His jacket and waistcoat were rough homespun of Glen Ur- tach wool, ^vhich threw off the wet like a duck's back, and below he was clad in shepherd's tar- tan trousers, which disappeared into unpolished ncling boocs. His shirt was grey flannel, and he was uncertain about a collar, but certain as to a t,e which he never had, his beard doin.. instead, and his hat was soft felt of four colors and seven diffbrent shapes. H.s point of dis- tinction in dress ^vas the trousers, and they ^vere the subject of unending speculation. "Some threep that he's worn thae eedentical pan- the last twent>^ year, an' a' mind masel 37 lii A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL l!!l him gettin' a tear aliint, when ho was crossin' oor palin', and the mend's still veesiblc. " Ithers declare 'at he's got a wab o' claith, and hes a new pair made in Muirtown aince in the twa year maybe, and keeps them in tlie garden till the new look wears aff. " For ma ain pairt," Soutar used to declare, " a' canna mak up my mind, but there's ae thing sure, the Glen wud not like tae see him withoot them : it wud be a shock tae con- fidence. There's no muckle o' the check left, but ye can aye tell it, and when ye sec thae breeks comin' in ye ken that if human poocr can save yir bairn's life it 'ill be dune." The confidence of the Glen — and tributary states — was unbounded, and rested parti)' on long experience of the doctor's resources, and partly on his hereditary connection. " His father was here afore him," Mrs. Mac- fndyen used to explain ; " atween them they've hed the countyside for weel on tae a centur}' ; 38 li A UiiNIiKAL PKACTITIONKR if MacLurc clisnri uiulcrstand oor constitution, wha clis, a' wud like tac ask? " For Drumtochty liad its own constitution and a special throat disease, as became a parish wliich was quite self-contained between the woods and the Jiills, and not dependent on the lowlands either for its diseases or its doctors. " He's a skilly man, Doctor MacLure," con- tinued my friend Mrs. Macfayden, whose judg- ment on sermons or anything else was seldom at fault; " aiV a kind-hearted, thou-h o' coorsc Jie hes his faults like us a', an' he disna tribble the Kirk often. " He aye can tell what's wrang ^i' a body, an' maistly he can put ye richt, and there's' nae new-fangled W)-s ^u him : a blister for the ootside an' I<:p.som salts for the inside dis his wark, an' they say there's no an herb on the hills he disna ken. "Jr we're tae dee, we're tae dee; an' if we're tae live, we're tae live, concluded Els- 39 A DOCTOR or THE OLD SCHOOL m III liiiii illi! 11^ li Ml! ■ nj!!'!l:n pctli, with sound Calvinistic loyic ; " but a'U say this for tlic doctor, th;it whether yir tac live or dee, he can aye kcej) up a shirp meis- ture on the skin. " But he's no vecra ceevil f^in ye br'uv^ him when there's naetiiin' wran;^," and Mrs. Mac- fayden's face reHectcd another of Mr. Hopps' misadventures of wliicli Hillocks held the copyri<^ht. " Hopps' laddie ate grosarts (gooseberries) till they hed to sit up a' nicht wi' him, an' naethin' wud do but they maun hae the dor- tor, an' he writes ' immediately ' on a slip o' paper. " VVeel, MacLure had been awa a' nicht wi' a shepherd's wife Dunleith w}', and he comes here withoot drawin' bridle, mud up tae the een. " ' What's a dae here. Hillocks ? " he cries ; ' it's no an accident, is't ? ' and when he got aff his horse he cud hardly stand wi' stiffness and tire. 40 ill m nOPPs' LADDIR ATE GROSARTS " Pi il ! U 4; V-i^ A r.EXKKAL PRACTrnoNKR "'It'." nanc o* us, doctor; it's Hopps' lad- die; he's been eatin' ovvcr mony berries.' " If he didna turn on me like a tij^er. " Div ye mean tae sa\- ' " ' Weesht, wecsht; an' I trieii tae (juiet liim, for Hopps wes comin' oot. " ' Well, doctor; becrins he, as brisk as a magpie, 'you're here at last; there's no hurry w ith you Scotchmen. My boy lias been sick all night, and I've never had one wink of sleep. You might have come a little quicker, that's all I've got to say.' " \Ve'\e mair tae dae in Drumtochty tlian attend tae every bairn that lies a sair stomach,' and a' saw MacLure wes roosed. '"I'm astonislied to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to Mrs. 'Opps " Look on me as a flimily friend. Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me though it be only a head- ache." ' He'd be mair sparin' o' his offers if lie 43 A DOCTOR OI' TIIIC OI.I) SCHOOL 1 '!!!!II !i'l;i \W liiliiiii ! hcd four and twenty mile tae look aiftcr. There's naethin' wranj^^ \vi' yir laddie but greed, (iie iiini a ^ude dose o' castor oil and stop his meat for a day, an' he 'ill be a' richt the morn.' "' lie 'ill not take castor oil, doctor. We have given up those barbarous medicines.' " * Whatna kind o' medicines hae )'e noo in the Sooth ? ' " ' Well, you see, Dr. MacLure, we're homce- opathists, and I've • little chest here,' and cot IIopps comes \.. ^iis boxy. " ' Let's see't,' an' MacLure sits doon and taks cot the bit bottles, and he reads the names wi' a hiuch every time. *' ' Belladonna ; did ye ever hear the like ? Aconite ; it cowes a'. Nux Vomica. What next ? Wcel, ma mannie,' he says tae Hopps, ' it's a fine ploy, and ye 'ill better gang on wV the Nux till it's dune, and gie him ony ither o' the sweeties he fancies, 44 A r.ENF.RAL I'UACTITIONKR •" Noo, Hillocks, a' maun be a ff tac sec Driiinslioii^'h's grieve, for lie's doon \vi' tlie fever, and it's tae be a teuch fecht. A' hiiina time tae wait for dinner; ^ie me some cheese an' cake in ma haund, and Jess 'ill tak a pail o' meal an' water. V ee ; am no wantni yir fees, man ; wi that boxy ye dinna need a doctor ; na, na, ^ie yir siller tae some puir body, Maister IIopps,' an' he w.t ; doon the road as hard as he cud lick.'" Mis fees were pretty much what thu folk chose to give him, and he collected them once a year at Kildrummie fair. " Well, doctor, what am a' awin' )'e for the wife and bairn ? Ye 'ill need three notes for that niciit >-e stayed in the hoose an' a' the veesits." " Havers," MacLure would answer, " prices are low, a'm hearing ; gie's thirty shillings." " No, a'll no, or the wife 'ill tak ma ears off," and it was settled for two pounds. 45 Iii"!i! A DOCTOR OF THK OLD SCHOOL ■■■^•% .lllllli w Lord Kilspliulie t^ave him a free house and fields, and one way or other, Drumsheu e hed keepit deith frae anither hame. Can ye no tln-nk o' somethin' tae help Annie, and gie iicr back tae lier man and bairnies?" and Tanmias searched the doctor's face in the cold, weird light. " There's nae pooer on lieaven or airth like luve," Marget said to me afterwards ; it maks the weak strong and the dumb tae speak Oor herts nere as water afore Tammas's words, an' a' saw the doctor shake in ],is ■saddle. A' never kent till that meenut hoo he hed a share in a'body's grief, an' carried the heaviest wecht o' a' the Glen. A' peetied him wi' Tammas lookin' at Iiim sae wistfully, as if he lied the keys o' life an' deith in his hands. 6l li : 1 iiF. hi, > I ! A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL But he wes honest, and wudna hold oot a false houp tae deceive a sore hert or win es- cape for himsel'." " Yc needna plead wi' me, Tammas, to dae the best a' can for yir wife. Man, a' kent her lang afore ye ever luved her ; a' brocht her intae the warld, and a' saw her through the fever when she wes a bit lassikie ; a' closed her mither's een, and it was me lied tae tell her she wes an orphan, an' nae man wes better pleased when she got a gude husband, and a' helpit her wi' her fower bairns. A've naither wife nor bairns o' ma own, an' a' coont a' the fouk o' the Glen ma family. Div ye think a' wudna save Annie if I cud? If there wes a man in Muirtown 'at cud dae mair for her, a'd have him this verra nicht, but a' the doctors in Perthshire are helpless for this tribble. "Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a' tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot nxkle o' a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith 62 THROUGH THE FLOOD sittin' at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an' canty again ; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be." "When a' lookit at the doctor's face," Marget said, " a' thocht him the winsomest man a' ever saw. He was transfigured tliat nicht, for a'm judging there's nae transfiguration like luve." " It's God's wull an' maun be borne, but it's a sair wull for me, an' a'm no ungratefu' tae you, doctor, for a' ye've dune and what ye said the nicht," and Tammas went back to sit with Annie for the last time. Jess picked her vvay through the deep snow to the main road, with a skill that came of long experience, and the doctor held converse with her according to his wont. " Eh, Jess wumman, yon wes the hardest wark a' hae tae face, and a' wud raither hae ta'en ma chance o' anither row in a Glen Urtach drift than tell Tammas Mitchell his wife wes dcein'. 63 -ios sTTsfrniHi,' ' .'; 'a tt-J«^'e on the road; >e 'ill hac been at Tammas Mitchell's; hoo's the gudewife ? a' doot she's sober." "Annie's deein', Drumsheugh, an' Tammas is like tae brak his hert." "That's no lichtsome, doctor, no lichtsome ava, for a' dinna ken ony ipan in Drumtochty sae bund up in his wife as Tannnas, and there's no a bonnier wumman o' her a«>-e crosses our kirk door than Annie, nor a clev- erer at her wark. Man, ye 'ill need tae pit yir brains in steep. Is she clean beyond ye ?" " Beyond me and every ithcr in the land but ane, and it wud cost a hundred -uineas tae bring him tae Drumtochty." 67 t| ;i 1_ :ii!l A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL " Ccrtes, lie's no blate ; it's a fell chair<;c for a short day's work ; but hundred or no hun- dred we '11 hae him, an' no let Annie i^ang, and her no half her years." " Are ye meanin' it, Drumsheugh ?" and MacLure turned white below the tan. 68 THROUGH THK FLooo " William MacLure," said Drunishcu-h, in one of the few confidences that ever broke t.'ie Drunitochty reserve, " a'm a lonely man, ui' naebody o' ma ain hlude tac care for' me Hvin'. or tae lift me intae ma coffin when a'm deid. "A'fechtawa at Miiirtown market for an extra pound on a beast, or a shillin' on tiie quarter o' barley, an' wliat's the ^rude o't? Burnbrae gaes aff tae get a goon for his wife or a buke for his college laddie, an' LacJilan Campbell 'ill no leave the place noo without a ribbon for Flora. " Ilka man in the Klldrummie train has some bit fairin' his pooch for the fouk at hame that he's bocht wi' the siller he won. " But there's naebody tae be lookin' oot for me, an' comin' doon the road tae meet me, and daffin' (joking) wi' me about their fairing,' or feeling ma pockets. Ou ay, a've seen it a' at ither hooses, though they tried tae hide it (^0 1-1 1 1 A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL !lj:'l frae mc for fear a' wud lauch at tliciii. Mc lauch, \vi' ma caulcl, (.ini)!}^ liamc! " Yir the only man kens, WeLliini, that I aince luvcd the noblest wuninian in the L;len or ony where, an' a' hive her still, but wi' anither luve noo. " She had ^iven her heart tac anither, or aVe thocht a' niieht hae won her, thoiiL,di nae man be worthy o' sic a ^ift. Ma hert turned tae .ttcrncss, but tliat passed awa beside tlie brier bush wiiar George I loo lay )'on sad sim- mer time. Some day a'll tell \'e ma story, Weelum, for you an' mc arc auld freends, and will be till we dec." Mac Lure felt beneath the table for Drums- heugh's hand, but neither man looked at the other. " Wecl, a' we can dae noo, Weelum, <^in we hacna mickle brichtness in oor am hames, is tae keep the licht frae gaein' oot in anither hoose. Write the telegram, man, and Sandy 70 'THB east had comb to meet the WBbT 71 !'^ Mil ■Mil n THROUGH THK FLOOO 'ill sciv-l itafffrac Kilclrnmmic this vcrra nicht, and yc 'ill hac yir man the morn." '• Yir the man a' coontcd yc, Drumshcii^di, but yc 'ill ^r,-ant mc ac favor. Yc 'ill hit mc pay the half, bit by bit— a' ken yir wiillin' tae d.ic't a' — but a' hacna mony pleasures, an' a' vvud like tac hac ma ain share in savin' Annie's life." Next mornin^r a fi