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settles down there; his future labours; a good judge of cloth; his 

 general aspect in his wanderings ; how he finished a web ; his journeys 

 to Aberdeen. 

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CHAPTER XXVII. 



JOHN'S LIFE AND HABITS AT DROUGHSBURN. 



His style of living ; the Allanachs with whom he boarded ; relations with 

 chilly Allanach ; with genial Mrs. Allanach ; with couthy Mrs. Webster : 

 his extreme care of his possessions ; of his chests ; of his books ; of his 

 clothes : John at church ; Botany on Sunday ; his flowers in church ; his 

 appearance there ; his short-sight and snuffing there ; on way home after 

 church : keeps Halloween and raises bonfires ; keeps Yule ; at other 

 merry-makings ; sings at a soiree. 



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CHAPTER XXVIII. 



[HIS GENERAL STUDIES IN LATER YEARS. 



Theology ; Astronomy ; Meteorology ; Ornithology ; Entomology ; Natural 

 History ; Geology ; Phrenology ; John Adam, the phrenologist and anti- 

 quarian ; General knowledge ; Gardening ; John's relations to the 

 McCombies of Cairnballoch ; his horticultural practices; his contempt 

 for " florist flowers " ; James Black's " monstrosities " ; John's herbalism ; 

 his politics ; his oratory : the Milton of Cushnie as it then was ; John and 

 Willie Williams, the shoemaker ; John and George Williams, the 

 merchant : the Alford Literary Society ; John at its meetings : his dislike 

 of gossip. 



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CHAPTER XXIX. 



HIS BOTANICAL STUDIES IN OLD AGE. 



Botany still dominant ; still harvesting and botanising ; his modes of gathering 

 plants ; his travelling fare ; his use of technical words ; his pronunciation 

 of them ; his depending on his memory ; his associations round flowers : 

 visited by lady in his eighty-fourth year ; searches for the Linntca for her ; 

 out all night in a thunder-storm ; his extraordinary ardour and self-denial ; 

 his flashes of old humour : his wild flower garden ; its decay : presented 

 with the portrait of Linnoeus ; wins two prizes for wild plants ; list of 

 wild plants in his garden. 



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