John Caldwell

“ This chest with supernatural strength she pushed forward and down two or three steps of the stairs, when the smoke from the burning straw and hay filled every apartment and had so nearly suffocated poor Catherine that with difficulty she was dragged over the chest to safety, whilst it was left with all the linen, the labour and savings of years left to it fate. ”

“ Bacon, ever after called the ‘Burning Bacon’, then started to destroy the bleach works and the cloths on the green, but it was represented that some of their own friends, had sent some linen to bleach, so this discriminating Manx Patriot, who could not be moved to compassion by the sight of an aged parent surrounded by the groups of his four innocent daughters and one little boy, was graciously pleased to relent from his purpose on the bleach works and green, for which forbearance he claimed credit. ”

“ The warning was in a moment acted upon and with desperate alacrity and austerity without fainting or hysteric fits, the tea tray and equipage together with the very few pieces of plate within reach, together with the immediate furniture of the room, were huddled from the already ignited house onto the lawn, whilst our affectionate and intrepid Catherine hastened up the narrow stairway to save the infant son of our elder sister Flora, who was happily at Bushbank with her Uncle. ”