"Well," said Waldron, "only how shall I find out?"

"I am sure _I_ don't know," said Mr. George. "I leave it all to you and
Rollo. I am busy forming my plans for a tour. You and Rollo can go and
talk about it, and see if you can discover any way of finding out the
name of one of the best hotels. If you can't, after trying fifteen
minutes, come to me, and I will help you."

So saying, Mr. George began to study his map again, and Waldron,
apparently much pleased with his commission, said, "Come, Rollo," and
walked away.

CHAPTER II.

DISTRICTS OF SCOTLAND.

I think that Mr. George was quite right in his idea, that the true
remedy for the spirit of restlessness and mischief that Waldron
manifested was to employ him, or, as he metaphorically termed it, to
_load_ him. And as this volume will, perhaps, fall into the hands of
many parents as well as children, I will here remark that a great many
good-hearted and excellent boys fall into the same difficulty from
precisely the same cause; namely, that they have not adequate employment
for their mental and physical powers, which are growing and
strengthening every day, and are hungering and thirsting for the means
and opportunities of expending their energies.

Parents are seldom aware how fast their children are growing and
increasing in strength, both of body and mind. The evidences of this
growth, in respect to the limbs and muscles of the body, are, indeed,
obvious to the eye; and as the growth advances, we have continual proof
of the pleasure which the exercise of these new powers gives to the
possessor of them. The active and boisterous plays of boys derive their
chief charm from the pleasure they feel in testing and exercising their
muscular powers in every way. They are always running, and leaping, and
wrestling, and pursuing each other, and pushing each other, and climbing
up to high places, and standing on their heads, and walking on the tops
of fences, and performing all other possible or conceivable feats, which
may give them the pleasure of working, in new and untried ways, their
muscular machinery, and feeling its increasing power, and in producing
new effects by means of it. They get themselves into continual
difficulties and dangers by these things, and cause themselves a great
deal of suffering. Still they go on, for the intoxicating delight of
using their powers, or, rather, the irresistible instinct which impels
them to use them, has greater fo