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The Annals of the Parish-Part6_John Galt(1779-1839)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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China boar, that had been brought down from London by Lord

Eaglesham, to mend the breed of pork--a profitablecommodity, that



her father, Mr Kibbock, cultivated for the Glasgow market. The

destruction of our sow, under such circumstances, was therefore held



to be a great crime and cruelty, and it had the effect to raise up

such a spirit in the clachan, that the Irish were obligated to



decamp; and they set out for Glasgow, where one of them was

afterwards hanged for a fact, but the truth concerning how he did



it, I either never heard, or it has passed from my mind, like many

other things I should have carefully treasured.



CHAPTER VIII YEAR 1767

All things in our parish were now beginning to shoot up into a great



prosperity. The spirit of farming began to get the upper hand of

the spirit of smuggling, and the coal-heughs that had been opened in



the Douray, now brought a pour of money among us. In the manse, the

thrift and frugality of the second Mrs Balwhidder throve



exceedingly, so that we could save the whole stipend for the bank.

The king's highway, as I have related in the foregoing, ran through



the Vennel, which was a narrow and a crooked street, with many big

stones here and there, and every now and then, both in the spring



and the fall, a gathering of middens for the fields; insomuch that

the coal-carts from the Douray moor were often reested in the middle



of the causey, and on more than one occasion some of them laired

altogether in the middens, and others of them broke down. Great



complaint was made by the carters anent these difficulties, and

there was, for many a day, a talk and sound of an alteration and



amendment; but nothing was fulfilled in the matter till the month of

March in this year, when the Lord Eaglesham was coming from London



to see the new lands that he had bought in our parish. His lordship

was a man of a genteel spirit, and very fond of his horses, which



were the most beautiful creatures of their kind that had been seen

in all the country side. Coming, as I was noting, to see his new



lands, he was obliged to pass through the clachan one day, when all

the middens were gathered out, reeking and sappy, in the middle of



the causey. Just as his lordship was driving in with his prancing

steeds, like a Jehu, at one end of the vennel, a long string of



loaded coal-carts came in at the other, and there was hardly room

for my lord to pass them. What was to be done? His lordship could



not turn back, and the coal-carts were in no less perplexity. Every

body was out of doors to see and to help; when, in trying to get his



lordship's carriage over the top of a midden, the horses gave a

sudden loup, and couped the coach, and threw my lord, head foremost,



into the very scent-bottle of the whole commodity, which made him go

perfect mad, and he swore like a trooper that he would get an act of



parliament to put down the nuisance--the which now ripened in the

course of this year into the undertaking of the trust-road.



His lordship, being in a woeful plight, left the carriage and came

to the manse, till his servant went to the castle for a change for



him; but he could not wait nor abide himself: so he got the lend of

my best suit of clothes, and was wonderful jocose both with Mrs



Balwhidder and me, for he was a portly man, and I but a thin body,

and it was really a droll curiosity to see his lordship clad in my



garments.

Out of this accident grew a sort of a neighbourliness between that



Lord Eaglesham and me; so that when Andrew Lanshaw, the brother that

was of the first Mrs Balwhidder, came to think of going to India, I



wrote to my lord for his behoof, and his lordship got him sent out

as a cadet, and was extraordinarydiscreet to Andrew when he went up



to London to take his passage, speaking to him of me as if I had

been a very saint, which the Searcher of Hearts knows I am far from



thinking myself.

But to return to the making of the trust-road, which, as I have



said, turned the town inside out. It was agreed among the heritors,

that it should run along the back side of the south houses; and that



there should be steadings fued off on each side, according to a plan

that was laid down; and this being gone into, the town gradually, in



the course of years, grew up into that orderlyness which makes it

now a pattern to the country side--all which was mainly owing to the



accident that befell the Lord Eaglesham, which is a clear proof how




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