TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD FIRE.
i Sir Herbert Maxwell, in a letter to The Times regarding the substitution of peat for fuel, tells the following story: — " Fishing one day in a moorland loch with an English friend, we took shelter from a heavy shower in a neighbouring cottage. I asked the good-wife to bake us some scones ' for luncheon. On the hearth was a pile of white peat-ash. " She went down on her knees, blew it aside, and there were the red embers underneath. "My friend seemed surprised, and asked how long the fire had been alight, expecting, I suppose, tha<t,she would say since 5 o'clock or so that morning. " But her reply was: ' It's just seevin-and-twenty year come Marti-mas since Rab and me cam' to this hoose, and the fire's never been oot syn-syne."
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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