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both his opinions and conduct to the end of his life. Thoroughly 

 straightforward in all things himself, he expected the same standard 

 in others, and any failure on the part of his acquaintances in relation 

 to the code of honour among men at once placed them beyond the 

 pale of his friendship ; and if on such occasions there had been any 

 religious pretensions along with the defective conduct, Roger's 

 denunciations his early associations always coming back to him 

 savoured much of the anathemas which have had their origin in the 

 Vatican. His high spirit rebelled at the hypocrisy of this man, to 

 whom he was bound, and the end was that he ran away. This was 

 done without the permission of his father, and by some means he 

 managed to cross over to the Clyde, and found a situation in 

 M'Dougald's Printfield at Rutherglen, and here he finished what 

 remained of his apprenticeship at the block-cutting. It might be 

 pointed out here as an evidence that the true cause of his running 

 away from his first master is that just stated above, and that it was 

 not owing to unsteady habits, from the fact, that although at 

 Rutherglen he had only six shillings a-week, being still an apprentice, 

 he kept himself on this small sum, and was so simple and frugal in 

 his habits that he had always something to spare, a point well-known 

 to his shopmates, who often took advantage of it when they wanted 

 assistance. 



In 1832 he got an appointment in the Customs at Liverpool, 

 where he went, but returned again after about a month's experience. 

 The duties of a gauger, which Burns had to fulfil, were about as 

 uncongenial as those which devolved on Roger in the Customs, 

 which may explain why he threw up his appointment so soon. 



He returned to Glasgow and got work at his old employment witk 

 a Mr. Maxwell in Nelson Street, who designed and cut blocks for 

 printing Sewed Muslin and Tambour patterns. The patterns for 

 these manufactures were all printed previously to being sewed by 

 the same kind of blocks, but the new art of lithography had been 

 recently introduced into Glasgow, and it finally superseded their use. 

 This slight revolution in a trade had something to do with influencing 

 Roger Kennedy's after life. It almost entirely destroyed the occu- 

 pation by means of which he lived, and he had to adapt himself to 

 the change. The patterns, instead of being cut on a block, had by 

 the new process to be traced on transfer paper with lithographic ink, 



