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that in all of their world-wide wanderings these teachers never lost sight of
many a gifted and longer lived "Geordie Hoo." The pen picture of the "Domsie"
by Ian McLaren, while faultlessly truthful, is not at all unique. Many
of us can call from memory's "land of used to be" just such another, so that
we can most heartily appreciate the beautiful little poem, and bless the author,
Dr. John H. Finley, for putting into rhyme and that in our own loved dialect,
"The Retirement of Domsie."

"Dear Domsie has slippit awa',
He's silently gane frae the glen;
He heard i' the ncht a voice ca',
Guid servant and faithfu', 'Come, Ben.'"

and concluding:

"Whan I maun gang oot frae myglen;
An' owre strange hills I maun fare,
I pray to meet Domsie again
Whaur skails the bit schule nevermair."

     The following list a list of people of Scottish birth who are, or have been, residents of Knox county, and, while not strictly accurate in names or dates, is approximately so:

FROM COUNTY OF AYRE AND DATE ARRIVAL, IN AMERICA.

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