The Standard Bearer

The Standard Bearer by S.R. Crockett is about a rebel minister living in Galloway during the 18th century. Excerpt: «This is what I, Quintin MacClellan, saw on the grassy summit of the Bennan—a thing which, being seen and overpast in an hour, changed all my life, and so in time by the grace of God and the chafe of circumstances made me for good or evil the man I am. I was a herd laddie at the time, like David, keeping my father's flocks and kicking up my heels among the collie tykes, with many another shepherd-boy in the wide moor parishes of Minnigaff, Dalry, and the Kells.»