Note 191 — Chapter IX · DEATH OF HIS FATHER—PROFESSORSHIP AT ABERDEEN—1856, 1857—Æt. 24-25.

With one of these, who happened to be “Carlyle-mad,” he drove one day on pilgrimage to Craigenputtock. The enthusiast, in his rapture, harangued an old peasant, who was hoeing “neeps,” on the glorious doings of the former tenant of the farm-house. The man listened, stooping over his work till the rhapsody was over, then looked up for a moment saying, “It is aye gude that mends,” and resumed his labour. Maxwell was fond of relating this.