CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER VIII. 



HOME-WEAVING, HARVESTING, SOLDIERING AND SCENERY. 



Public events during his stay in Aberdeen ; becomes a country weaver ; home- 

 weaving described : harvesting at home and at a distance : joins the 

 militia ; life at barracks in Aberdeen ; experiences during training : the 

 scenes of John's future life; Benachie and the Don. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



HIS EARLY LIFE AS A COUNTRY WEAVER. 



Settles near Monymusk on the Don ; scenery round ; wanderings for herbs ; 

 unkind and kind proprietors ; soap dear and little used ; stays near 

 Paradise on the Don ; Paradise described ; stinginess and buttermilk ; 

 learns to write about thirty ; goes to Fyvie ; scenery there ; his friendship 

 with gardeners ; his success in weaving and study of the art. 



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CHAPTER X. 



HIS STUDIES AT THIS PERIOD : ELEMENTARY SUBJECTS AND HERBS. 



Politics in Aberdeen ; Writing ; Meanings and Etymology ; Grammar and 

 Arithmetic ; Latin and Greek ; Geography and History : Herbalism ; 

 Culpepper and his "Herbal"; Sir John Hill and Tournefort ; John's 

 knowledge of plants ; his opposition to doctors ; his own medical practice ; 

 ex amples of his employment of curative plants ; of his practical uses of 

 plants ; of his picturesque knowledge of them : his study of Astrology. 



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CHAPTER XI. 



HIS ASTRONOMICAL STUDIES: "JOHNNIE MOON." 



Culpepper and Astrology ; begins Astronomy ; his midnight studies ; is 

 counted " mad " ; studies Dialling and makes dials ; his mode of knowing 

 the hours ; his pocket horologe described ; studies Meteorology ; known 

 as "the star-gazer," "Johnnie Moon," and "the Nogman"; John a 

 true " nogman." 



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