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It was Allan's nature to drift with events, and to easily accoay, fashionable

trifler; in Germany cloudy philosophies and musical ideas had fascinated

him; in Rome he had dreamed in old temples, and painted and smoked with

the artists in their lofty shabby studios He was equally ready to share

the stirring danger and freedoh to feel delight in physical exertion, and in physical danger

When the boat went hah cheerless seas, and the lines were

heavy with great ling fish, it was pleasure to est ry

and weary, to turn shoreward, and feel the s the cottage hearth, and the welcoie Promoter nearer Even when the weather was

stormy, and it was a hurl down one sea, and a hoist up the next, when the

forty foot mast had to be lowered and lashed down, and the heavy rew to enjoy the tuht, and

his hand was always ready to do its share

Very soon after going to the Pro; and Maggie often thought when he ca, with his brown hair ith the spindrift, nets on his

shoulders, or lines in his hands, that he was the handsomest fisher-lad

that ever sailed the Frith of Forth David and Allan were one back to the boats as the minister bade him, yet the