The Gentleman's Magazine: Volume 280, January to June, 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine: Volume 280, January to June, 1896

Not that that worthy burgh was at the time we are speak ing of destitute of such evidence of civilisation. It was accessible by means of a line which, meandering leisurely round among h coast towns of Fife, came in due course to Leuchars, and while proceeding on its way to Dundee, sent a kind of back-hantfl offshoot to reach, in such circuitous fashion, the remote and secluded seat of learning. Travelling thus, you arrived there from Edinburgh (according to one highly respectable authority) in a space of time only slightly longer than that in which you might have walked it.

But this was a new line - a branch line connecting St. Andrews with some of those picturesque, Sleepy little coast towns hitherto untouched by the railway and, naturally, its construction entailed a considerable increase, for the time being, in the population of the burgh. The navvies made the streets noisy on Saturday nights, and filled the public-houses to overflowing. They fluttered the nerves of timid elderly ladies who had been dining out, or attending missionary meetings in the evening their presence was felt, with a not wholly unpleasant horror, to be a wholesale invasion of the dangerous classes; and benevolent people made attempts to reach (and presumably improve) them by preaching to them and giving them teas, the latter process being looked upon as a stepping-stone to the former.

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