CHAPTEE VI. 



SETTLES AT BANFF. 



EDWARD was about twenty years old when he left 

 Aberdeen, and went to Banff to work at his trade. 

 He found a master there willing to employ him. 

 Shoemaking had not improved. Men worked long 

 hours for little wages. The hardest worker could only 

 earn a scanty livelihood. Though paid by the piece, 

 the journeymen worked in the employers' shops. 

 Their hours were from six in the morning till nine 

 at night. They had scarcely an interval of time that 

 they could call their own. 



Edward found the confinement more miserable 

 than the wages. And yet he contrived to find 

 some time to follow his bent. He went after birds, 

 and insects, and butterflies. He annoyed his shop- 

 mates almost as much as he had annoyed his school- 

 fellows. In summer time, he collected a number of 

 caterpillars, and put them in a box beside him in the 

 workshop, for the purpose of watching them, and 

 observing their development into the chrysalis state. 



In spite of his care, some of the caterpillars got 

 out, and wandered about the floor, sometimes creeping 



