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Title: My Schools and Schoolmasters
or The Story of my Education.

Author: Hugh Miller

Release Date: December 22, 2009 [EBook #30737]

Language: English

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MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS.

_Morrison and Gibb, Edinburgh,_
_Printers to Her Majesty's Stationery Office._

[Illustration: Hugh Miller]

MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS
OR
THE STORY OF MY EDUCATION.

BY HUGH MILLER,

AUTHOR OF 'THE OLD RED SANDSTONE,' 'FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR,'
ETC. ETC.

[Illustration: Logo]

EDINBURGH:
W. P. NIMMO, HAY, & MITCHELL.
1889.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE

A sailor's early career--First marriage--Escape from
shipwreck--Second Love--Traits of character, 1

CHAPTER II.

Childhood and childish visions--A Father's death--Favourite
books--Sketch of two maternal uncles, 20

CHAPTER III.

Dawn of patriotism--Cromarty Grammar School--Prevalent
amusements--Old Francie--Earliest geological researches, 40

CHAPTER IV.

Uncle Sandy as a Naturalist--Important discovery--Cromarty Sutors
and their caves--Expedition to the 'Doocot'--Difficulties and
dangers--Sensation produced, 62

CHAPTER V.

A would-be patroness--Boyish games--First friendship--Visit to the
Highlands--Geologizing in the Gruids--Ossian-worship, 85

CHAPTER VI.

Cousin George and Cousin William--Excursion with Cousin
Walter--Painful accident--Family bereavements--Links between
the present and the past, 107

CHAPTER VII.

Subscription school--Vacation delights--Forays and fears--Quarrel
with the schoolmaster