Xli CONTENTS. 



after successes and present position : James Barclay, the painter ; his 

 relations to John ; becomes a Jack-of-all-trades : other friends ; the 

 intelligence then existing in Tough. 

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CHAPTER XX. 



ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE COUNTRY ; AND JOHN'S RELIGION. 



Constitutionally and enthusiastically religious ; his religion of the old Cove- 

 nanting type ; intense hater of prelacy and popery ; his contrast to 

 Charles Black and discussions between them ; anti-patronage and anti- 

 Erastian advocate : the Disruption ; John's advocacy of it ; controversies 

 at Netherton ; relation of Aberdeenshire to the Free Church ; the Free 

 Church in the Vale of Alford ; new religious zeal roused ; John's keen 

 activity ; John in church ; remains a staunch Free Churchman : his study 

 of Theology ; his opinions of the great Reformers. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 



HIS BOTANICAL WANDERINGS IN THE SOUTH. 



John's harvesting a means of wide Botanising ; extent of his wanderings ; his 

 adventures and observations ; visits Glasgow, Paisley, Dunfermline, 

 Dundee the Rest Harrow Perth, Arbroath, Montrose, St. Andrews 

 Viper's bugloss Fife, Kelso, Coldstream, Northumberland and its burr ; 

 his returns homewards ; his wages and their payment : John at Dunbog 

 in Fife ; his botanical assistants there ; long walks and flowers : his 

 expenses ; a god-send to his entertainers : comes to a breadless Highland 

 hut; food produced in an hour; the "quern" and Biblical hospitality: 

 spinning of linen by the distaff; the use of the bare thigh ! ; its relation to 

 modesty : his encounter with two tramps in Fife ; falls among Highland 

 " tinklers " ; their honesty and hospitality. 



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CHAPTER XXII. 



JOHN RETURNS TO THE GADIE. 



Return to Auchleven ; Sandy Smith's cottage ; Sandy Smith himself; John 

 and Mrs. Smith ; his abstemiousness ; his methodicalness ; his quiet 

 humour night-caps and 'social standing ! ; John and young Sandy : 

 Emslie, the carpenter's wife ; her kindness to John ; their intellectual 

 intercourse ; her opinion of him : Mrs. Lindsay's cottage ; John by the 

 fireside there; John sleeps with a "pig!"; his returns for kindness 

 received. 



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