" BOB " AND HIS APPRENTICES 39 



of the wide world. Such men, although they have 

 written no printed books, are remembered and 

 talked about in places of which they themselves 

 neither imagined nor dreamed. These wanderers, 

 often far away, sit round less homely firesides, and, 

 in the flickering flames, conjure up pictures of 

 " Bobs," and rocky headlands with Scotch firs waving 

 over homeland streams; or they go down paths to 

 other rivers which remind them of the old, worn 

 ones upon which they once followed a blue-eyed 

 man. 



