frigid and unsympathetic calculation of his personal danger, humbly, and unconscious of the respect with which he is viewed personally, falling on his knees, and craving a "benison !" and happy, if the brightness of Caledonia's name has not been tarnished by his neglect of the duties of a citizen, a son, a soldier, and the name of Christian!

CHAPTER XVII.

For since the claims

Of social life to different labours urge

The active pow'rs of man; with wise intent
The hand of Nature on peculiar minds
Imprints a different bias, and to each
Decrees its province in the common toil.

AKENSIDE.

ST. Clyde wrote his friend Augustus, who had now returned to Edinburgh, and expressed a hope of seeing him very soon, though not to pore over science and literature. Eliza expressed all the gratitude of her heart for what the Earl of B had done for Colin: they were indeed the feelings of of an ingenuous heart for the services. received by one on whom an affectionate soul dotes.

It was now time for Colin to leave

Bute; but he was only going to Edinburgh to join his regiment, which had left Dumbarton castle on the very day his recruits sailed. He came to the shore of Schulock; it was the regular ferrytown across the channel to the mainland: ferry-boat he could get none that day; two had already sailed, and the third was repairing; there were none of the fishermen would take him to the Largs; they were mending their nets, and their boats they would not launch; their minds were soured by the recruiting business: a few of the youths however at the ferry offered to take the laird over to the Auld-kirk, but their boats. could not bear a heavy sea; and "The clouds were journeying east the sky, The wind was low, and the swell was high, And the glossy sea was heaving bright, Like ridges and hills of liquid light; While far on her lubric bosom were seen The magic dyes of purple and green."

However they had all been out rough

er day's than that, and if St. Clyde was

not more afraid of his life than they were of theirs, he had only to say the word, and there was no danger but John Munn's boat would make the opposite shore.

St. Clyde received his father's embrace; four of these young men were in the boat in an instant: she had belonged to a Greenland whaler, she was wherry rigged, the crew were excellent sailors; in five minutes she was clear of the shore, and

"How joyed the bark her sides to lave!

She leaned to the lee and she girdled the wave!
Aloft on the stayless verge she hung,

Light on the wave veered and swung,

And the crests of the billows before her flung:
Loud murmured the channel with gulp and with
The seal swam aloof and the dark sea fowl. [growl,
Over head neither sun nor cerulean sky shone!
A pathway of snow was the ocean alone!"

They were not half a league from the ferry till the spray drenched all on board, the gale gathered strength, it blew from the Garroch-head, the foremast gave

way; it was a moment of stir and commotion; Stuart's cutter scudding before the wind was but a gun-shot from them; he saw their distress; and when all the elements seemed combined to send down this little bark like a bird of the ocean, the cutter steered close upon them, and the men throwing a rope, young Munn seized it, and the boat was brought alongside; for the cutter lay-to for a lit, tle. They were all kindly taken on board by Lieu. Stuart, who was very much pleased to find in the wherry his friend S. Clyde; he did not know his sister Eliza and St. Clyde were friends: the wherry was towed by the cutter, and St.Clyde was safely landed at Weems's bay.

Colin hastened to Edinburgh, and appeared there in a very different light to that in which he had shone when be was at the university. Then his dress was plain, and he might only be distin