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Work has been done " said another man. "Perhaps " said another "the work has been completed by now to his satisfaction. " "The chain must hold " said one of our oarsmen. "It must!" "What do you think Jason?" asked a man. "Let us hope fervently " I. diflucan 200mg School boys when fighting. ] Alan once more. If I became the pride of the Yards and the dread of the hucksters in the High School Wynd it was under thy patronage; and but for thee I had been contented with humbly passing through the Cowgate Port without climbing over the top of it and had never seen the KITTLE NINE-STEPS nearer than from Bareford's Parks. [A pass on the very brink of the Castle rock to the north by which it is just possible for a goat or a High School boy to turn the corner of the building where it rises from the edge of the precipice. This was so favourite a feat with the 'hell and neck boys' of the higher classes that at on! e time sentinels were posted to prevent its repetition. One of the nine-steps was rendered more secure because the climber could take hold of the root of a nettle so precarious were the means of passing this celebrated spot. The manning the Cowgate Port especially in snowball time was also a choice amusement as it offered an inaccessible station for the boys who used these missiles to the annoyance of the passengers. The gateway is now demolished; and probably most of its garrison lie as low as the fortress. To recollect that the author himself however naturally disqualified was one of those juvenile dreadnoughts is a sad reflection to one who cannot now step over a brook without assistance. ] You taught me to keep my fingers off the weak and to clench my fist against the strong--to carry no tales out of school--to stand forth like a true man--obey the stern order of a PANDE MANUM and endure my pawmies without wincing like one that is determined not to be the better for the! m. In a word before I knew thee I knew nothing. At college it was the same. When I was incorrigibly idle your example and encouragement roused me to mental exertion and showed me the way to intellectual enjoyment. You made me an historian a metaphysician (INVITA MINERVA)--nay by Heaven! you had almost made an advocate of me as well as of yourself. Yes rather than part with you Alan I attended a weary season at the Scotch Law Class; a wearier at the Civil; and with what excellent advantage my notebook filled with caricatures of the professors and my fellow students is it not yet extant to testify? Thus far have I held on with thee untired; and to say truth purely and solely that I might travel the same road with thee. But it will not do Alan. By my faith man I could as soon think of. dr6drt534884dkdfkgjgeel5j5j