pier where there was a train
of cars to take people to Loch Lomond, on the way to the Highlands.
Waldron said that we should come there, he supposed, when we go to the
Highlands.

"A little farther down we came to a great rocky hill, close by the
water, with a castle upon it. The name of it is Dunbarton Castle. We
shall go by it again, when we go to the Highlands.

"Then we came to a great widening of the river, and not long after that
we arrived at Greenock and landed. We thought that the boat was going to
stop here, but it did not. A great many of the passengers staid on
board, and a great many more came on board, to go farther down the
river.

"We went first to the station, so as to see when the trains went back to
Glasgow. Then we took a walk.

"We found a street near the depot with a high hill behind it, and close
to it. There were walls and terraces all the way up, and trees here and
there. We looked up, and we could see the heads of some children over
the topmost wall. They were looking down to where we were. Presently we
came to an opening, and some flights of steps and steep walks, and so we
thought we would go up.

"When we got to the top we found a broad terrace, with a wall along the
front edge of it, where we could look down upon the river and the town.
The town lay very narrow between the river and the foot of the hill. We
were up very high above the tops of the houses.

"Behind us, on the terrace, were broad green fields and gravel walks,
and beds of flowers, and great trees with seats under them. There were
a good many nursery maids around there, with children. The nursery
maids sat on the seats, and the children played before them with the
pebbles and gravel.

"I read in the guide book about some famous waterworks at Greenock, but
we could not find them. We asked one man, who was at work on the gravel
walks, if he could tell us where they were; but he only stared at us and
said he did not 'knaw ony thing aboot it.'

"After this we went down the hill again, and took a long walk along the
bank of the river. There was an omnibus going by, and we wanted to get
into it and see where it would carry us; but we did not know but that it
might carry us to some place that we could not get back from very soon.
The name of the place where the omnibus went was painted on the side of
it but it was a place that we had never heard of before, and so we did
not know where it was.

"After this we went back to