wn boys having wet feet, and will preside at
meetings for the prevention of cruelty to animals; but he has to go
through his process of barbarism. During this Red Indian stage a
philanthropist is not the ideal of the boy. His master must have the
qualities of a brigand chief, an autocratic will, a fearless mien, and
an iron hand. On the first symptom of mutiny he must draw a pistol from
his belt (one of twenty), and shoot the audacious rebel dead on the
spot. So perfectly did Bulldog fulfil this ideal that Bauldie, who had
an unholy turn for caricature, once drew him in the costume and arms of
Chipanwhackewa, an Indian chief of prodigious valour and marvellous
exploits. This likeness was passed from hand to hand, to be arrested
and confiscated by its subject when in Jock Howieson's possession, and
although Jock paid the penalty, as was most due, yet it was believed
that Bulldog was much pleased by the tribute, and that he kept the
picture in his desk.

His achievements in his own field, which extended from the supervision
of handwriting to instruction in mathematics, were sustained and
marvellous. When a boy was committed to his care at or about the age of
eight, before which age he attended a girls' school and fed his
imagination on what was in store for him under Bulldog, the great man
wrote at the head of his copy-book, in full text and something better
than copper-plate, "He that spareth his rod hateth his son." With this
animating sentiment the neophyte made a fearful beginning, and his
master assisted him to transcribe it for years to come through half text
and small text, till he could accomplish it with such delicate
up-strokes and massive down-strokes, such fine curves and calculated
distances, that the writing could hardly be distinguished from the
original, and might be exhibited to the Lord Provost and bailies at the
annual examination. It is said now that no school of any name in the
land would condescend to teach writing, and that boys coming from such
high places can compass their own signatures with difficulty, and are
quite illegible after a gentlemanly fashion; but it was otherwise in one
old grammar school. So famous was the caligraphy produced at the
Seminary that Muirtown bankers, lawyers, and other great personages used
to drop in of an afternoon, and having snuffed with the master, would go
over the copy-books and pick out suitable lads for their offices. And it
is a solemn fact that one enterpris