'MARK ME. NOW!"
A clergyman in the' north of Scotland, whose parish was spread over sevei'al villages in the hills, one day set out to make his visitation. He got out his horse, which had seen better days, and bestrode him. Whilst going along the road, he came upon a shepherd boy, who was carrying a pot full of tar and a brush, which he was taking up the hills to. mark sheep with. The good man thought it would be a charitable act to give the lad a lift, and invited him to get up behind him. To improve the occasion with some sound teaching, ho began by asking him his catechism, &c, making comments on each answer, finishing with a remark which always began with the words ' Mark me, now I ' Ho continued his oration until, after admonishing the lad to ' mark him, now ' several times, the boy remarked, ' The tar's a' dune .' the tar's a' dune I '
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 8
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160'MARK ME. NOW!" Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 8
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