Crossword-Solution: DARVEL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Alexander Morton, (1820-60), the perfector if not the inventor of gold pens, was born in Darvel, Ayrshire.

And, towering as high as the gallows, painted green as to its coat and limbs, but gilt in the helmet and brandishing a great spear, was the image called David Darvel Gatheren that the Papist Welsh adored.

Ropes from the figure's neck ran out and tightened--some among the crowd began to sing the song against Welsh Papists that ran-- _'David Darvel Gatheren_ _As sayeth the Welshmen_ _Fetched outlaws out of hell!_' and the burden of it rose so loud that the image swayed over and fell unheard.

There are large lace curtain factories at Galston, Newmilns and Darvel, and at Beith cabinet-making is a considerable industry.

There are other interesting series of caves, and one--that of Madai, in Darvel Bay on the East coast--was visited by the late Lady BRASSEY and Miss BRASSEY in April, 1887, when British North Borneo was honoured by a visit of the celebrated yacht the _Sunbeam_, with Lord BRASSEY and his family on board.