Meekin’s Memorial Window

A wealthy Lowland merchant, whom we shall call Meekin, though that was not his real name, and who had erected a chapel, known as Meekin’s Memorial Church, to the memory of his wife, took shootings in the Highlands, and one day by accident fired some of his shot into his Highland ghillie, wholly depriving him of the sight of one eye.

It was thought that, being wealthy, he would do
something handsome for the poor ghiliie ; but all he
did was to take him south and send him home with
a glass eye in place of the eye that had been destroyed. The dwellers in the glen were keenly interested, not to say amused, at the ghiilie’s glass eye, which came to be known amongst them as Meekin’s Memorial Window.

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