I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE VOLUME ΤΟ SIR HENRY CRAIK, K.C.B., LL.D., A loyal friend and genial colleague, whose PREFATORY NOTE. THE unexpectedly favourable reception accorded to my 'Memories Grave and Gay,' seconded by requests from kindly critics for a further instalment, has tempted me to take up my pen once more. I do so not without a fear, amounting almost to a foreboding, that it may be with me as with many others, to have been fairly successful in a first attempt and fail in a second. Is it with writing as with love? Can one with safety make a slight adaptation of Tennyson and say, 'Tis better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all? "I hae my doots." CONTENTS. Diary-keeping-School life-A stepmother-A Baron- Bailie-I saw your ginnels [gills] workin'-Burns' anniversary-Dear newspapers-Funeral and social customs-"Isna Garscadden unco gash?"-Creel- ing-Broose-Early railways-Archery-Bullying Tutoring and studies in Edinburgh—Natural Philosophy chair in St Andrews-Divinity Hall-A disappoint- ment-Tempted to go to Cambridge-Taken in by "Scottie"-Cambridge friends-Insomnia-Speak- Apologies for mistakes-Business and sentiment incom- patible-Repartees-The Judge and the Sheriff- Poor sermons-Toll-bars and parsimony-A point- less story-Railway incidents-"I'll fecht nae 83 |