ELEGY,
On the ever to be lamented death of ⟨Peter⟩ Duthie, who departed this life at Perth, on ⟨the⟩ 1st day of October 1812, after having spent upwards of eighty years as a flying Stationer. ⟨He⟩ was born near the town of Kirrimuir in Forfarshire, in the month of May, 1721, and he ⟨took⟩ up the profession of a traveling bookseller ⟨when⟩ only about eight years of age, and continued in the same line till the day of his death, ⟨excepting⟩ about three years that he was a soldier or ⟨rather⟩ a prisoner; for Peter was impressed into ⟨his⟩ Majesty's service in the year 1755, but such ⟨was⟩ his attachment to the house of Stewart, that ⟨he⟩ never would handle arms under the ⟨Hanoverian⟩ family and the regiment to which he was attached, was obliged to discharge him, after having in vain tried every method to make him ⟨a⟩ soldier. Peter Duthie was well known in ⟨every⟩ city, town, village and hamlet in Great Britain and his many whimsicalities will long ⟨continue⟩ to be the theme of rural speculation.
