Chapter 2

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CONTENTS

MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS

PAGE I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME 7

II. SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES 19

III. OLD MORTALITY 26

IV. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE 36

V. AN OLD SCOTS GARDENER 46

VI. PASTORAL 53

VII. THE MANSE 61

VIII. MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET 68

IX. THOMAS STEVENSON 75

X. TALK AND TALKERS: I. 81

XI. TALK AND TALKERS: II. 94

XII. THE CHARACTER OF DOGS 105

XIII. A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED 116

XIV. A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS'S 124

XV. A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE 134

XVI. A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE 148

MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN