This glossary does
not belong to the original work, but is designed to help with the
conversations and references in Broad Scots found in this work. A
further explanation of this list can be found towards the end of
this document, preceding the glossary.
Any notes that I have made in the text (e.g. relating to Greek words
in the text) have been enclosed in {} brackets.
TO
THE MEMORY
OF THE MAN WHO
STANDS HIGHEST IN THE ORATORY
OF MY MEMORY,
ALEXANDER JOHN SCOTT,
I, DARING, PRESUME TO DEDICATE THIS BOOK.
PART I.--HIS BOYHOOD.
CHAPTER I.
A RECOLLECTION.
Robert Falconer, school-boy, aged fourteen, thought he had never
seen his father; that is, thought he had no recollection of having
ever seen him. But the moment when my story begins, he had begun to
doubt whether his belief in the matter was correct. And, as he went
on thinking, he became more and more assured that he had seen his
father somewhere about six years before, as near as a thoughtful boy
of his age could judge of the lapse of a period that would form half
of that portion of his existence which was bound into one by the
reticulations of memory.
For there dawned upon his mind the vision of one Sunday afternoon.
Betty had gone to church, and he was alone with his grandmother,
reading The Pilgrim's Progress to her, when, just as Christian
knocked at the wicket-gate, a tap came to the street door, and he
went to open it.
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