--Feeding the hungry--Parish Council
boarders--Dwindling attendances--Arnisdale--Golspie Technical
School--On the Sidlaws--Some surprises--Arran schools--Science
and literature--Study of Scott--The old classical dominie--Vogue
of Latin in former times--Teachers and
examinations--Howlers--Competing subjects.

CHAPTER V.--A TRIP TO SHETLAND, 217

Aberdeen--En route--Lerwick--Past and present saints--Some notes
on the islands--A Shetland poet--A visit to Bressay--From
Lerwick to Sandwick--Quarff--"That holy man,
Noah"--Fladibister--Cunningsburgh--"Keeping off"--The indignant
elder--Torquil Halcrow--Philology--A Sandwick gentleman--Local
tales--Foulah and Fair Isle--The fishing season.

CHAPTER VI.--COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS AND THEIR ANECDOTES, 255

Trials of commercials--The two-est-faced knave--Mary, the maid
of the inn--Anecdotes of the smoking-room: Sonnet to
Raleigh--Peelin's below the tree--"She's away!"--A mean
house--One of the director's wives--Temperance hotels--A
memorial window--The blasted heath--The day for it--The
converted drummer--A circular ticket--A compound
possessive--Sixteen medals--"She's auld, and she's thin, and
she'll keep"--The will o' the dead--Sorry for London--"Raither
unceevil"--An unwelcome recitation--A word in season--A Nairn
critic--A grand day for it--A pro-Boer--"Falls of Bruar, only,
please!"--A bad case of nerves.

CHAPTER VII.--LEGENDS AND LITERARY NOTABILIA, 278

Gairloch folk-lore: Prince Olaf and his bride--A laird who had
seen a fairy--Tales from Loch Broom: The dance of death--The
Kildonan midwife--The magic herring--Taisch--Antiquities of
Dunvegan--Miscellaneous terrors--St. Kilda--Lady
Grange--Pierless Tiree--Lochbuie in Mull--Inveraray Castle--The
sacred isle--Appin--Macdonald's gratitude--Notes on the
Trossachs--Lochfyneside: Macivors, Macvicars, and
Macallisters--Red Hector--Macphail of Colonsay--Tales from
Speyside: Tom Eunan!--Shaws and Grants--The wishing well--Ossian
and Macpherson--At the foot o' Bennachie--Harlaw--Lochaber
reivers--Reay and Twickenham--Rob Donn--Rev. Mr. Mill of
Dunrossness.

CHAPTER VIII.--METRICAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY, 340

Arrival of the Mail-train at a Highland Station--Defoe, the
Father of Journalism--A