FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
open-mouthed at the rain- and soot-streaked ancient, and 
wonder where the sounds of laughter come from. £ Ou, 
it's jist they daft student laddies,' says M'Kay ; and he 
tells his charges as they go on to the next show-place of 
the queer ways of the men of the Hall. 
I have made a sketch of one of the rooms as I last saw 
it. It ought to form a contrast to the drawings I may 
make in the Antarctic. It was done in the . tail of a 
N.W. gale, with everything pitching about, so much 
allowance may be made for it. The ladies in the sketch, 
I ought to say, are the students who come in August 
to sit at the feet of Professor Geddes, and who turn us 
poor men out of Riddle's Court to find shelter in some 
of the other Halls. 
The parting with our friends that evening was quite 
touching ; some sorrowed because they could not come 
with us, and a few that we were so foolish as to venture 
