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Brewer's: Old Mortality
The itinerant antiquary in Sir Walter Scott's novel of that name. It is said to be a picture of Robert Paterson, a Scotchman, who busied himself in clearing the moss from the tombstones of the Covenanters.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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