If it is strange for me to look back from a distance both in time and space on these bygone adventures of our youth, it must be stranger for you who tread the same streets--who may to-morrow open the door of the old Speculative, where we begin to rank with Scott and Robert Emmet and the beloved and inglorious Macbean--or may pass the corner of the close where that great society, the L.J.R., held its meetings and drank its beer, sitting in the seats of Burns and his companions.

I think I see you, moving there by plain daylight, beholding with your natural eyes those places that have now become for your companion a part of the scenery of dreams.

How, in the intervals of present business, the past must echo in your memory! Let it not echo often without some kind thoughts of your friend, R.L.S.SKERRYVORE, BOURNEMOUTH.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS II I COME TO MY JOURNEY'S END III I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE IV I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS V I GO TO THE QUEEN'S FERRY VI WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN'S FERRY VII I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG "COVENANT" OF DYSART VIII THE ROUND-HOUSE IX THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD X THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE XI THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER XII I HEAR OF THE "RED FOX" XIII THE LOSS OF THE BRIG XIV THE ISLET XV THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL XVI THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN XVII THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX XVIIII TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE XIX THE HOUSE OF FEAR XX THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS XXI THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH XXII THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR XXIII CLUNY'S CAGE XXIV THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE QUARREL IN BALQUHIDDER XXVI END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH XXVII I COME TO MR.

RANKEILLOR XXVIII I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE XXIX I COME INTO MY KINGDOM XXX GOOD-BYE.