A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL

by Ian Maclaren

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[DR. MacLURE]
[Part I. A GENERAL PRACTITIONER]
[Sandy Stewart "Napped" Stones]
[The Gudewife is Keepin' up a Ding-Dong]
[His House—little more than a cottage]
[Whirling Past in a Cloud of Dust]
[Will He Never Come?]
[The Verra Look o' Him wes Victory]
[Weeping by Her Man's Bedside]
[Men Get the Victoria Cross in Other Fields]
[Hopps' Laddie Ate Grosarts]
[There werna Mair than Four at Nicht]

Part I.
A GENERAL PRACTITIONER.

PREFACE

It is with great good will that I write this short preface to the edition of "A Doctor of the Old School" (which has been illustrated by Mr. Gordon after an admirable and understanding fashion) because there are two things that I should like to say to my readers, being also my friends.

One, is to answer a question that has been often and fairly asked. Was there ever any doctor so self-forgetful and so utterly Christian as William MacLure? To which I am proud to reply, on my conscience: Not one man, but many in Scotland and in the South country. I will dare prophecy also across the sea.