X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



LIFE AND STAR-GAZING AT AUCHLEVEN AND TULLYNESSLE. 



The classical Gadie ; the village of Auchleven on it; John settles there; 

 his bedroom, "the Philosopher's Hall"; weaving; Astronomy in an 

 ash-tree ; Willie Mortimer, the village shoemaker ; John's aspect and 

 habits; counted "silly"; his character: stays at Insch; "the star- 

 mannie " there : removes, to Tullynessle in the Vale of Alford ; his 

 master, Robbie Barron ; his workshop and bedroom ; Astronomy there ; 

 his telescope and dials ; midnight on the mountains ; frightens a good 

 woman at night ; his life at Muckletovvn ; how looked on there ; frequents 

 it to the last. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



SETTLEMENT AT NETHERTON, AND VILLAGE LIFE THERE. 



The Vale of Alford and the Don described ; Netherton in Tough ; John settles 

 down there ; his new home and work ; his new master, Peter Marnock ; 

 John's life there ; Charles Hunter, the shoemaker ; Sandy Cameron, the 

 tailor ; Willie Davidson, the innkeeper ; John still persecuted by his wife. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



JOHN'S INTRODUCTION TO HIS " ALTER EGO." 



The mansion of Whitehouse ; Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson ; Charles Black, 

 the gardener ; his early life and botanical studies ; his character and 

 later studies ; John's introduction to him ; Botany or Culpeppcr ? ; the 

 crisis in John's life reached. 



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CHAPTER XV. 



THEIR FIRST BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



Charles's first impressions of John ; their friendship ; John begins Scientific 

 Botany ; his first gatherings : their self-denying enthusiasm ; their wider 

 excursions ; Benachie and its plants ; " the winter of the big storm " of 

 1837-38 ; their peripatetic philosophising at the gates of Whitehouse ; 

 John's midnight walk of thirty miles to the Loch of Skene ; the happiness 

 of their joint studies. 



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