There was no mirth, no unseemly revelry, but there was a great deal of hard drinking.
Eventually the tents were done away with, but not until the services on the Fast Days were shortened.

The Auld Licht ministers were the only ones who preached against the tents with any heart, and since the old dominie, my predecessor at the schoolhouse, died, there has not been an Auld Licht permanently resident in the glen of Quharity.
Perhaps nothing took it out of the Auld Licht males so much as a christening.

Then alone they showed symptoms of nervousness, more especially after the remarkable baptism of Eppie Whamond.

I could tell of several scandals in connection with the kirk.

There was, for instance, the time when Easie Haggart saved the minister.