440 The Little Minister

'T also leave a book for Nanny Webster, and

I charge you, Peter Tosh, to take it to her,
though she be not a member of my church.

“The pictorial Bible with ‘To my son on his
sixth birthday’ on it, I bequeath to Rob Dow.
No, my mother will want to keep that. I give
to Rob Dow my Bible with the brass clasp.

“Tt is my wish that every family in the congre-
gation should have some little thing to remember
me by. This you will tell my mother.

“To my successor I leave whatsoever of my
papers he may think of any value to him, includ-
ing all my notes on Revelation, of which I meant
to make a book. I hope he will never sing the
paraphrases.

“If Mr. Carfrae’s health permits, you will ask
him to preach the funeral sermon; but if he be
too frail, then you will ask Mr. Trail, under
whom I sat in Glasgow. The illustrated ‘ Pil-
grim’s Progress’ on the drawers in my bedroom
belongs to Mr. Trail, and you will return it to
him with my affection and compliments.

“T owe five shillings to Hendry Munn for
mending my boots, and a smaller sum to Baxter,
the mason. I have two pounds belonging to Rob
Dow, who asked me to take charge of them for
him. I owe no other man anything, and this
you will bear in mind if Matthew Cargill, the
flying stationer, again brings forward a claim for
the price of Whiston’s ‘ Josephus,’ which I did
not buy from him.

“ Mr. Moncur, of Aberbrothick, had agreed to
assist me at the Sacrament, and will. doubtless
still lend his services. Mr. Carfrae or Mr. Trail