The Reverend Micah Balwhidder was settled as minister of Dalmailing on the very day George III came to the throne, and he records the half-century that follows one year to a chapter. Smuggling, marriages, a cotton mill, wars abroad and quarrels at home pass through his pages, told in a voice so earnest that the humour comes entirely from what he fails to notice.
A gently comic Scottish classic of 1821, admired for its shrewd picture of a parish changing with the times. Download the free EPUB.