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GLEN, Author of "The Manse on the Leven," "The Yeovilles of Yeoville Towers," &c. CHAPTER I. ESTLING amongst the lofty, verdure-clad hills that over-look the Clyde, near the ancient and renowned castle of Dumbarton, lies a quaint little hamlet, yclept Millrock. It derives its name partly from the rocky nature of the soil in the neighbourhood, and partly from its ancient ivy-grown mill which has furnished occupation for the few inhabitants during many generations. At one time Millrock was a much more thriving place than it is at present. The mill was then a cotton mill in the hands of an energetic and able capitalist, and employed a considerable number both of men and women; but after a period of prosperity, like most sublunary concerns, it began to wane, and on the death of the owner-partly from inadequate management, and partly owing to a general depression of trade, it was found necessary to close it altogether. Since then, from time to time, the mill has been taken up by enterprising men, and utilised in various ways, then, after a trial, abandoned; but of late it has been kept going as a paper mill, and seems to be prospering. Amongst the present dwellers in Millrock is one family of no ordinary interest. They are the owners of that most poetical of places, the village smithy. Their name is Malcolmson. They are not natives of Millrock, but hail from beloved son, christened William, but familiarly called Wullie, in whom, as may well be supposed, the hopes of both parents centre. Wullie was originally intended for the kirk, it being the ambition of his mother, in cominon with very many Scottish mothers, to see her son "wag his pow in a poopit as weel as ither folk." Wullie had therefore been kept well at his books during the interesting period of boyhood-that period of the wild exuberance of animal nature, so frequently displaying itself in the maddest pranks, and most insufferable rudeness, but through which even the most doting of mothers is obliged to see her male offspring pass ere he reach the glorious perfection of manhood. Through this period, then, Wullie was kept close at his studies; and if at times, urged by the depravity of his own fallen nature or the evil example of other boys, he was induced to "plunk the schule," the worthy father did not hesitate to apply the proverbial "rod" to Wullie's breech, said rod consisting of a sturdy hazel "rung," cut from a neighbouring wood, for the express purpose. And if during such an operation, the mother's heart bled for her boy, and in answer to his appealing look she longed to interpose her substantial person between him and the irate partner of her joys and sorrows, yet did the thought of ing to such an impulse (for Mrs. Malcolmson Wullie's future, marred by her weakly yield the east of Scotland, somewhere in Forfarshire. was an earnest student of her Bible, and a firm The family consists of three persons-the believer in the wisdom of Solomon), steel her father, the mother, and an only and well-heart against it, and she would retire "ben the |