Excerpt from A Galloway Herd The minister's funeral was winding slowly out of the little manse loaning. The window-blinds were all down, and their bald whiteness, like sightless eyes looking out of the white-washed walls and the trampled snow, made the Free Church Manse of Deeside no cheerful picture that wild New Year's day. The green gate that had hung on one hinge, periodically mended ever since the minister's son broke the other swinging on it the summer of the dry year before he went to college, had swayed for ward with a miserably forlorn lurch, as though it too had tried to follow the funeral procession of the man who had shut it carefully every night for forty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.