Search just our sites by using our customised search engine

Unique Cottages | Electric Scotland's Classified Directory

Click here to get a Printer Friendly PageSmiley

The Anecdotage of Glasgow
Rev. Dr. N. MacLeod of St. Columba's, and the wig


THE late venerable Dr. Norman Macleod, long minister of St. Columba’s Gaelic Church, Hope Street, Glasgow, and father of the late minister of the Barony Parish Church, was proceeding to open a new place of worship, and as he passed slowly and gravely through the crowd gathered about the doors, an elderly man, with a peculiar kind of wig—bright, smooth, and of a reddish-brown—accosted him :—

"Doctor, if you please I wish to speak to you."

"Well, Duncan," said the genial doctor, "can ye not wait till after worship?"

"No, doctor, I must speak to you now, for it is a matter upon my conscience."

"Oh, since it is a matter of conscience, tell me what it is; but be brief, Duncan, for time presses."

"The matter is this, doctor. Ye see the clock yonder on the face of the new church. Well, there is no clock really there—nothing but the face of the clock. There is no truth in it but only once in the twelve hours. Now it is, in my mind, very wrong, and quite against my conscience, that there should be a lie on the face of the house of God."

"Duncan, I will consider the point. But I am glad to see you looking so well. You are not young now. I remember you for many years; and what a fine head of hair you have still !"

"Eh, doctor, you are joking now, it is long since I had my own hair."

"Oh, Duncan, Duncan, can it be that you are going into the house of the Lord with a lie upon your head?"

This settled the question, and the doctor heard no more of the lie on the face of the clock.


Return to Book Index


 


This comment system requires you to be logged in through either a Disqus account or an account you already have with Google, Twitter, Facebook or Yahoo. In the event you don't have an account with any of these companies then you can create an account with Disqus. All comments are moderated so they won't display until the moderator has approved your comment.

comments powered by Disqus

Quantcast