to many.1 Indeed his pleasure in animals grew with his years, and dates from further back than when, as a student at Biggiesknowe, his cat, seated on his shoulder, watched him write and read.

The return to Peebles, whether from St Andrews or Glasgow, must have seemed very natural and necessary after having done the same during most of his student days. But we find that he added to his knowledge of his home-country, especially during early Glasgow years, by beginning in earnest what he called his "Border raids." Professor Ramsay says that "one is half tempted to suspect that it would have been more to his liking if nature had made him a Border reiver instead of only a professor." Indeed, when he started off from his headquarters at The Loaning, strangely garbed, and staff in hand, to wander over the hills for days and nights alone, one realised that wild old blood, and an irresistible inbred love, mingled with the vagabondish tendencies of the philosopher! Here are a few of his own flashing words after sundry "raids":"Driven by an impulse which means

1 Comp. "Jockie," in 'Merlin, and Other Poems.'