Notes on the District of Menteith, for tourists and others . f sleeping in a bedand meals three times a day ( aboot Balfron)to fish laborious days. CHAPTEE VI PANTHEISTIC Setting forth some particulars of two Menteithworthies, with something of Sith Bruachan, andsome remarks on shadows. One of the most characteristic of the few re-maining types of the past was certainly HughGraham, of the Port of Menteith. Those whodo vainly (like the Pelagians) think that goodmanners and courtesy imply servility ought tohave known Hugh Graham. Personally I am notcertain if he knew with any accuracy the situat
Notes on the District of Menteith, for tourists and others . f sleeping in a bedand meals three times a day ( aboot Balfron)to fish laborious days. CHAPTEE VI PANTHEISTIC Setting forth some particulars of two Menteithworthies, with something of Sith Bruachan, andsome remarks on shadows. One of the most characteristic of the few re-maining types of the past was certainly HughGraham, of the Port of Menteith. Those whodo vainly (like the Pelagians) think that goodmanners and courtesy imply servility ought tohave known Hugh Graham. Personally I am notcertain if he knew with any accuracy the situationof the Seychelle Islands, or could have told onemuch of the binomial theorem. What I doknow is that he retained in a great measure theancient Highland manners. Oh, how refreshingthose ancient Highland manners were, starting asthey did from a different basis from our modemmethod of deportment! Strange as it may appear,Hugh Graham, although a boatman, consideredhimself, and was, a gentleman, and being onehimself, he treated all humanity in the same a-I E< MENTEITH 77 The modem fashion, which implies that evei-yone is not a gentleman, leaves a different feelingon the recipient of their flavour. Not that mostprobably they are not better than the older style,in the same way that a bicycle is better than ahorse; but then the style is different. All thelegends of the district were known to Hugh, who,of course, had Gaelic, and seemed to havepersonally assisted at most events of importancein Scottish history for the past two hundred is the way in which a man who has thetraditions should take himself—as he grows olderand contemporaries die, always to antedate hisbirth each year a year or two, so that at lasthe comes to have really Hved with those he talksabout. Only by living with people do we really get toknow them (not always even then); and if a manmakes it his daily duty to talk of Claverhouse,John Knox, Rob Roy, and other men of violencein days gone by, he
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