His eyebrows were bushy, for we find mention made of them as a "pent-house." His eyes were always light blue.

They had in them a capacity, on the one hand, for enthusiasm, sunny brightness, and even hare-brained humour, and on the other for expressing determined resolve and kindly irony, which gave great range of expression to the face.

There are plenty of materials for judging what sort of a boy Scott was.

In spite of his lameness, he early taught himself to clamber about with an agility that few children could have surpassed, and to sit his first pony--a little Shetland, not bigger than a large Newfoundland dog, which used to come into the house to be fed by him--even in gallops on very rough ground.

He became very early a declaimer.