Excerpt from The Missionary of Kilmany: Being a Memoir of Alexander Paterson, With Notices of Robert Edie Alexander Paterson was born at Kilmany, Fifeshire, in 1790. His education was Of the most limited kind, extending over one or two months during a few Of the winters of his early childhood. As he grew up into boyhood, he. Was employed as a herd on the farm of Mn. Edie, the father of that Robert Edie whoa by-and-bye was to become his bosom-friend. Naturally Of a bland and kindly tempera ment, he occupied his leisure hours in the fields knitting stockings for his favorites in the village; and, when the herding was over for the day, he might be seen in some neighbor's. Garden, especially in the little plots of some. Aged females, digging, or raking, or planting, . As earnestly as if he had been laboring for hire. The genial nature which thus early manifested itself, was to open for him in after years many a door to the hearts Of the aban doued and the forlorn. 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.