LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait, Dr. John Brown . . . . . . . Frontispiece. Rab . . . . . . . . Hermann Simon "He is muzzled!". . . . . Hermann Simon "He lifted down Ailie his wife" . . . Edmund H. Garrett "One look at her quiets the students" . . Edmund H. Garrett "Rab looked perplexed and dangerous" . . Hermann Simon "—And passed away so gently" . . Edmund H. Garrett "Down the hill through Auchindinny woods" Edmund H. Garrett Rab and Jess . . . . . . Hermann Simon...

Four-and-thirty years ago, Bob Ainslie and I were coming up Infirmary Street from the High School, our heads together, and our arms intertwisted, as only lovers and boys know how, or why. When we got to the top of the street, and turned north, we espied a crowd at the Tron Church. "A dog-fight!" shouted Bob, and was off; and so was I, both of us all but praying that it might not be over before we got up! And is not this boy-nature? and human nature too? and don't we all wish a house on fire not