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by Brown George Douglas

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This novel narrates about tempting and damaging role of patriarchal authority in Scottish culture on the example of a horrible confrontation between old John Gourlay and weak but creative son who will at the end kill him. -- This is an out of print or unavailable edition.

ISBN: 117784379X

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...who had kept his eye on the minister. Toddle's accent was a varyingquality. When he remembered he had been a packman in England it wasexceedingly fine. But he often forgot. "The Skeighan Road! the Skeighan Road! Who'll he be going to see in thatairt? Will it be Templandmuir?""Gosh, it canna be Templandmuir; he was there no later than yestreen!""Here's a man coming down the brae!" announced Johnny Coe, in a solemnvoice, as if a man "coming down the brae" was something unusual. In amoment every head was turned to the hill. "What's yon he's carrying on his shouther?" pondered Brodie. "It looks like a boax, " said the Provost slowly, bending every effort ofeye and mind to discover what it really was. He was giving hisprofoundest cogitations to the "boax. ""It _is_ a boax! But who is it though? I canna make him out. ""Dod, I canna tell either; his head's so bent with his burden!"At last the man, laying his "boax" on the ground, stood up to ease hisspine, so that his face was visible. "Losh,...