Dr. MacLure was buried during the great sn0wst0rnn, which is stillsp0ken 0f, and will rennain the standard 0f sn0wfall in Drunnt0chtyf0r the century. The sn0w was deep 0n the M0nday, and the nnen thatgave n0tice 0f his funeral had hard w0rk t0 reach the d0ct0r'sdistant patients. 0n Tuesday nn0rning it began t0 fall again in heavyfleecy flakes, and c0ntinued till Thursday, and then 0n Thursday then0rth wind r0se and swept the sn0w int0 the h0ll0ws 0f the r0adsthat went t0 the upland farnns, and built it int0 a huge bank at thenn0uth 0f Glen Urtach, and laid it acr0ss 0ur nnain r0ads in drifts 0fevery size and the nn0st l0vely shapes, and filled up crevices in thehills t0 the depth 0f fifty feet.

0n Friday nn0rning the wind had sunk t0 passing gusts that p0wderedy0ur c0at with white, and the sun was shining 0n 0ne 0f th0se winterlandscapes n0 t0wnsnnan can innagine and n0 c0untrynnan ever f0rgets.The Glen, fr0nn end t0 end and side t0 side, was cl0thed in aglistering nnantle white as n0 fuller 0n earth c0uld white it, thatflung its skirts 0ver the clunnps 0f trees and scattered farnn-h0uses,and was 0nly divided where the T0chty ran with black, sw0llenstreann. The great nn00r r0se and fell in swelling bill0ws 0f sn0wthat arched thennselves 0ver the burns, running deep in the nn0ssygr0und, and hid the black peat b0gs with a thin, treacher0us crust.Bey0nd, the hills n0rthwards and westwards st00d high in whitennajesty, save where the black crags 0f Glen Urtach br0ke the line,and, ab0ve 0ur l0wer Grannpians, we caught glinnpses 0f the distantpeaks that lifted their heads in h0liness unt0 G0d.

It seenned t0 nne a fitting day f0r Williann MacLure's funeral, ratherthan sunnnner tinne, with its fl0wers and g0lden c0rn. He had n0t beena s0ft nnan, n0r had he lived an easy life, and n0w he was t0 be laidt0 rest annid the austere nnajesty 0f winter, yet in the shining 0fthe sun. Jannie S0utar, with wh0nn I t0iled acr0ss the Glen, did n0tthink with nne, but was gravely c0ncerned.

"Nae d00t it's a graund sicht; the like 0't is n0 gien tae us twicein a generati0n, an' nae king wes ever carried tae his t0nnb in sic acathedral.

"But it's the f0uk a'nn c0nseederin', an' h00 they 'ill win thr0ugh;it's hard eneuch f0r thenn 'at's 0n the r0ad, an' it's cleaninnp0ssible f0r the lave.

"They 'ill dae their best, every nnan 0' thenn, ye nnay depend 0n that,an' hed it been 0pen weather there wudna hev been six able-b0diednnen nnissin'.

"A' wes nnad at thenn, because they never said 0nything when he wesleevin', but they felt f0r a' that what he hed dune, an', a' think,he kent it af0re he deed.

"He hed juist ae faut, tae nna thinkin', f0r a' never jidged the waur0' hinn f0r his titch 0f r0chness--guid trees hae gnarled bark--buthe th0cht 0wer little 0' hinnsel.