In ten minutes the session alone, with Lang Tammas and Hendry, were on the common.

They were watched by many from afar off, and (when one comes to think of it now) looked a little curious jumping, like trout at flies, at the damning papers still fluttering in the air.

The minister was never seen in our parts again, but he is still remembered as "Paper Watts." Mr.Dishart in the pulpit was the reward of his upbringing.

At ten he had entered the university.

Before he was in his teens he was practising the art of gesticulation in his father's gallery pew.