. The land of heather . ne Scotch minister that not many years ago,in his boyhood home near Oban, they had an elderlyclergyman who used to get drunk every time he wentmaking parish calls. At each home whiskey was setforth for him, after the time-honored custom of theregion, and this was so much to his liking, and thepotations he drank were so liberal, that by the time hehad made a half dozen visits it was necessary for someone to carry him back to the manse. The drinkhabit grew on him, and at length he would appearintoxicated in the pulpit, and be so maudlin the churchelders would be obliged t
. The land of heather . ne Scotch minister that not many years ago,in his boyhood home near Oban, they had an elderlyclergyman who used to get drunk every time he wentmaking parish calls. At each home whiskey was setforth for him, after the time-honored custom of theregion, and this was so much to his liking, and thepotations he drank were so liberal, that by the time hehad made a half dozen visits it was necessary for someone to carry him back to the manse. The drinkhabit grew on him, and at length he would appearintoxicated in the pulpit, and be so maudlin the churchelders would be obliged to interrupt him and take himout of the kirk by force. In the end the Presbyteryinduced him to resign. His habits, however, were less 236 The Land of Heather of a scandal than they might have been in that particu-lar community, had not his two predecessors died ofdelirium tremens. No doubt this is an extreme case,but that such a thing is possible is suggestive of con-ditions that are a little surprising to say the i!^^iiiiiiSS»^ A Church in a Northern Glen XIII A BURNS PILGRIMAGE ROBERTBURNSwas bornJanuary 25, 1759,in a cabin on theoutskirts of thecity of Ayr; andfor this reason Ayrdraws to itselfevery year hosts ofvisitors. These vis-itors, it is said, num-ber fully twice asmany as go to Strat-ford, which seemsto argue that Burns has won more hearts than Shake-speare has won intellects. You find yourself in a Burns atmosphere the mo-ment you reach the town ; for just outside the stationstands an imposing monument to the poet, and the ^31
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