viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE APPRENTICE WEAVER UNDER THE SHADOW TASTING OF TYRANNY. 



Maggie Dunse, his new mistress : Charlie Pirie, his pugilistic master ; hi* 

 questionable pursuits ; his tyranny at home : the apprentice runs away ; 

 "the bad harvest" of 1811 : his mistress's character and high influence 

 over John ; her sudden death ; cruelty increased thereafter. 



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CHAPTER V. 



THE APPRENTICE WEAVER IN THE SUNSHINE ENTERING THE TEMPLE 

 OF LEARNING. 



John's character and appearance then ; taught the letters in his sixteenth year ; 

 his private female tutors Mary Garvie at the fireside, Mary Brand in 

 the workshop, Mrs. Pirie at home ; his style of reading ; writing not yet 

 begun ; at an evening school ; his new studies ; begins Medical Botany : 

 his amusements ; his escape from tyranny. 



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CHAPTER VI. 



THE JOURNEYMAN WEAVER DURING HIS FIRST FREEDOM. 



Returns to Stonehaven ; his studies and life ; Herbalism and Culpepper ; 

 Astrology and almanacs : removes with mother to Aberdeen ; his 

 walking powers then ; the city and its manufactures then ; learns 

 woollen as well as linen weaving ; the weaver William Thorn. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



UNHAPPY DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES. 



Meets and marries Margaret Wise ; her character and treatment of him ; their 

 two daughters ; his home broken up ; his wife's future history ; the secret 

 sorrow of his life ; its effects on him : his daughters' upbringing and 

 history; "heather Jock," his son-in-law, and John's relations to him; 

 and to his wife's son, Durward. 



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