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Mistress Jean Gowdy was the tenant of a sheep farm on a moor, north of Perth, where by rigorous economy and unwearied industry she and her two sons and daughter contrived to make the rent, to live frugally, and to put by a bit.
Jean was a hale, active woman of sixty, with a fine handsome face, but no figure to speak of -- a hard-headed, hard-working, God-fearing Scotch woman.