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bicycle. They brought their bicycles with them to 

 St, Andrews, and had several rides over Fifeshire, 

 in a family party with Mrs. Scott, Lady Lubbock's 

 sister, and the two girls Ursula and Irene, and 

 Harold. 



Needless to say. Sir John played golf fairly 

 regularly, but I cannot find in his journal all the 

 full appreciation of the glories of the St. Andrews 

 links that I should expect to see recorded. On 

 September 16 he notes : " Had a round with Old 

 Tom Morris." 



He records a couple of good stories told him by 

 that fine raconteur, as well as preacher, A. K. H. B. 

 " James I. being preached at in the St. Andrews 

 parish church, enjoined the minister either to talk 

 sense or come down from the pulpit. ' I will 

 neither,' replied the Divine, ' talk sense nor come 

 doon.' " The other anecdote was of " Dr. Muir, 

 about 1834, praying for the Provost and Bailies 

 of Glasgow, ' such as they are, that they may 

 have more wisdom and grace,' and when the 

 Provost sent the Marshal to complain, returning 

 his compliments to the Provost with regrets that 

 ' his prayer had not been heard.' " 



Professor Heddle played his part with a good 

 ghost story. In the room in which John 

 Buchanan died, a sound was sometimes heard 

 which was supposed to be his heavy breathing 

 during his last illness. No one dared sleep in the 

 room, and the house stood for a long time empty. 

 Professor Heddle at last bought it cheap, and, not 

 believing in ghosts, slept in the room. For some 

 weeks nothing happened, but one night he was 

 woken up, and to his great surprise distinctly 



