The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-21
THE RESPECT OF DROWDLE.
coryrioht. 1900 BY 5. II. C,oet,L

n ye want your head broken. gang doom
to Drowdlo on a Saturday NIGHT. Il an advice
often given to the boastful or the bumptiOus.
Drowdlc Is Il new place, too, and the inhabi-
tants, instead Of being, like the ordinary scotch
Gcordies. settled for generations In one coal
field. and with the whole street Of relatives
within stone throw. were composed Of all the
strags and r~c~tloss ne'er-do-wecls " such
~ go down into the earth from Cornwall even
to tho Hill-o-Beith.
Most folk. | sny. know Drowdle by repute
] myself, indeed, once acted a. locum tnucns
for the doctor there for six hot and lively sum
mcr weeks. and gained an experience In the
treatment Of contu~ioIs, disColorutions and
brlsions Of the skull and frontal bones
which has been Of the greatest posse
BILE use to me since. The younger Drowd-
leites. however, had at that time q
habit OF stretching a cord aCros, the
doorstep. about a foot above the step. which
interfered considerably with professional dig
nifty Of exit iii you were used to il. But after
one has got into tho habit Of scouting ahead
with a spttulu ground tine and tied 10 a walk
ing stick on darkivh nights, Drowdle begins
to respect Won, Stiii better if ,as ! lid you
catch a couple Of the cord stretchcrs, pro-
ducc an o%coipitol confusion or two on your
own account, and finish by kicking the ic tor,
bodily into Drowdlo Water. then the long rows
Of slated brick which constitute the mining
village begin 10 agree that the new doGktcr
kcu- his business. smart lad! Hoard We
what he did to thae twa deil-, Jock Ice an
Cockly nixon? lie catchlt them trippin' him
wi Il c]airtrare at Betty Fcrg0u'5 door, and.
faith, he dressed their hurdles for them til
they viii not -it easy In the kirk for a for
NIGHT Syne he threw them brltu into Drowdle
Aatcr'"
ID We tell me- sac. Tamml-? Faith, but ho
mann n, u skuIv vim. will ,t.u gang nm this
vorra ulsli ana Ina" MN 10 'r" cor joss. Sh"
, n"ss s' ,rI, b @IY ~ IN 'h "' ,ro",na e "a'pV AN T' rim,
9th" elbow lilt'.
"\y. man. John. an thnt'- voeI tboClt on
~. ~ ~, D.. ~"
u G'd 'n'' ca" "I'>' ,n' u'"'"'''' '"' ".-
battered young dell Hike Jock lo" and Cock!v
viyon viii max n,a,ains at a. o. the ns. o.
.NA'. hu' " "' LOT j." W ""' '''7 ,'''. 81
mluv tell ma" an I'll rom" 10 $50 1t. bod. a."
diversion I had when ponkter Ncrraa pu',d
81, u.., l,., - -. a..
oot >,\ o h'o Baxter na'n !Ih' was '"'>' pas,
tellin'. Man. he hauled Rub three times roond
t,.Ift,t., Lin. -, 81, tr,,. .,,,.ni,, r,,,s ~,
yeiiiu' blue wu't't"r' O, Iamm1-.li WAS a. SuId
as cr,u--lu' nearly a. guild a-af lcht'
Such n''iS 'h" "dF I" 'dIh '' esteem "l
DrOwdle II would hHy" saved ~" telling ui THIS
-Ipry II Vhpu NDrug DIlrNlp ttOrduu received "A
-, u,. .,ltt.I
call +" b" minister oil N" recently established
mission church there, he had any on" tO ln-
form him OF flrf fact
He "ls 80 Young Tint h' wac ashamed Whom
any ON" asked him his Ig" lh"N had called
hivI JOANNA AZ aoll'g". and son I'm racip"~
along 'hH d.~k FOR compelling e beard and
ml-f1,ln fO grow under NNruuditlous Of soil
and climate. however uu'tNurtrIn.
Dlir-l" Gordon vas NV Isnpoort. very
learned. very Ignorant ~. ~" o'ly son ~ 4
wsn-tu-ip mother who from q child had da--
f.rad him for the ministry. The moro was the
uI'E.
u q child ha VIZ considered too delicate
fnr the rough uul tunh'o uf school lie r1d
a tutor. % mild-facrd Young man who -n.drm
spoke above h- h-rl''. and royrr winIrvlv
wicked more tilu 20 milo ~ n time. and lion
viii n hplk ia his hand and another i'm his
pnctnf. TnIrr his iu- rlctiuu. however. pl.r-
-o became ln excellent classic iri his yc--c
gpi0ci tho 1Duruvll Of Prof. .Jlpife- Oivmuua
whom no went 10 tho I University n Edinburgh.
where Latin vcr-,- were q rare ~lccomrIi.I-
uert In those DAYS and Grogk ones rs extinct
"A. the lo1o
Ms Gordon c1wo NJ ho-Sr'' from no Du,1-
r., to settle D1i~-'c lu I've horse of "A f-ic1I
uf her own. the widow ~ a donrl~ei m.u,-r.-
Who hal m1r~iri an OH muiI late ia no Tlfz
ryrr.r,' luiv ro--ps-ei much cvur~.opra ~
hIllr- and % good WORKING Euow1pIrr of ',t
,Hc-f.u--. hIt -1r knew unth.Ir - vu.rr mon
30 being r'.rai IN lrtIurf, over b.tr-..
.rr insisted Eat 10 Shout come straight nY,.
to Re-. Crescent from his class ,-. fIgo dirr.- !
J.. IL .I o.. 80 ,r. g... .I..o ,..r. t.