Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — Pardie’s Panacea. [ARTICLE]

Pardie’s Panacea.

Tom Purdie, an old man servant in Sir Walter Scott’s household, used to talk of the famous “Waverley Novels” as “our books.” and said that the reading of them was the greatest comfort to him. 4 “Whenever I am off my sleep,’’ he confided to James Skene, the author of “Memories of Sir Walter Scott,” ”1 have only to take one of the novels, and before I have read two pages it is sure to Bet me asleep.”