The life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912 . ^ COCO W Si, w i or ROBERT COLLYER 35 training and inspiration. There was the Sundayschool, for example, which was the only divinityschool (he) ever had the opportunity to his parents were married, and theirchildren baptised, in the Anglican communion,the family went to the parish church only twicein the year, on Easter and Whitsuntide. The dis-tance undoubtedly had much to do with this fact,but it may be true also that old Parson Ram-shaw was not much to the liking of Samuel Coll-yer and his good wife. He was one of the oldro
The life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912 . ^ COCO W Si, w i or ROBERT COLLYER 35 training and inspiration. There was the Sundayschool, for example, which was the only divinityschool (he) ever had the opportunity to his parents were married, and theirchildren baptised, in the Anglican communion,the family went to the parish church only twicein the year, on Easter and Whitsuntide. The dis-tance undoubtedly had much to do with this fact,but it may be true also that old Parson Ram-shaw was not much to the liking of Samuel Coll-yer and his good wife. He was one of the oldrough *church-among-the-mountains parsons,says the Doctor. There were traditions of wildscrapes in his early days, such as a baby bornwithin a few weeks of his marriage to his house-keeper, a very handsome woman, daughter of aneighbouring farmer; and of his shooting a don-keys ears off once when he was in his cups, mis-taking them for a pair of moor birds as they werecropping up over a level wall. But in my time,30-38, he was an old man, with a lot
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