vi CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Returns to Conon-side Makes Himself respected in the Barrack 

 Companions Attempts Geometry and Architecture Hardships 

 Experiment in Necromancy Dream The Bothy System Lite- 

 rary Recreations Tedium End of Apprenticeship The Blessing 

 of Labour Practical Philosophy 



BOOK III. THE JOURNEYMAN. 



CHAPTER I. 



Favourable Opinions from Old David Wright and Uncle James 

 First Work as Journeyman Aunt Jenny's Cottage Sends Poet- 

 ical Pieces to Ross Self-Delineation . . . . 97 



CHAPTER II. 



Gairloch Letters descriptive of his Journey from Conon-side and 

 of Gairloch Scenery Love-Poetry The Carter Old John Fraser 

 A Dream Magnanimous Revenge Gairloch Landscapes 

 Back to Cromarty . . . . . . . . . . 105 



CHAPTER III. 



Comes of Age Sets sail for Edinburgh Parting Reflections Morn- 

 ing on the Moray Frith First Sight of Edinburgh Absent from 

 Church for five Sundays and ' a few more ' Holyrood, Charles 

 II.'s Statue, Effigy of Knox, the College, Ferguson's Grave, Dr 

 M c Crie The Panorama, the Theatre . . . . . . 127 



CHAPTER IV. 



Niddrie Blackguard Workmen Miller prejudiced by them against 

 their Class His Opinions on Trades' Unions The ' Boatman's 

 Tale 'Returns to Cromarty . . . . . . . . 144 



CHAPTER V. 



The Stone-cutter's Disease Lines to Sister Jeanie Renews his 

 Friendship with Swanson and Corresponds with Ross Writes an 

 Ode on Greece and offers it to the Scotsman . . . . 156 



CHAPTER VI. 



Poems addressed to Ross Serious Thoughts Correspondence with 

 Swanson Freakish Humour Descends into the Tomb of the 

 Urquharts Is catechized by Mr Stewart Writing in the Open 

 Air A Proselytizing Bore Correspondence on Religion . . 171 



