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Auld Licht Idylls

CHAPTER XII
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Her punishment was to have a son born without hands.

The Coat of Many Colours also told of the liar who exclaimed, "If this is not gospel true may I stand here for ever," and who is standing on that spot still, only nobody knows where it is.
George Wishart was the Coat's hero, and often he has told in the Square how Wishart saved Dundee.

It was the time when the plague lay over Scotland, and in Dundee they saw it approaching from the West in the form of a great black cloud.

They fell on their knees and prayed, crying to the cloud to pass them by, and while they prayed it came nearer.

Then they looked around for the most holy man among them, to intervene with God on their behalf.


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