Author: Hector Macgregor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780365020844

Excerpt from The Souter's Lamp: And Other Stories The Glen folk liked to appear in their new boots for the first time at the Kirk. This made Saturday the Souter's busiest day. But the week's work was generally finished by eight o'clock on Saturday evening. The Souter liked a quiet talk, and Saturday evening was the time when people had an hour to spare. Between eight and ten o'clock there were usually three or four cronies seated about the kitchen ingle. As the big clock, which choked the passage between the room and the kitchen, rumbled out the strokes of eight, the Souter rose from his bench with a sigh of relief. He first swept the week's clippings into a corner, and then hung his apron on a nail behind the door. His wife came in when she heard him stirring, and took the boots that were to be called for into the kitchen. At a quarter past eight, after he had washed his face and hands in the tub that stood outside the kitchen door and caught the water off the roof, the Souter carried the big lamp in from the workshop and hung it carefully on the knob of the kitchen window shutter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.