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Many rosy-faced young fellows were also to be seen, who had left their country occupations for a little, and who, if unsuccessful" i.e., in gaining a bursary "would return to them, and work in their leisure hours at their favourite classics until another competition came round.
From the moment the boy got a footing in the school he hardly cost his father another penny. He got a local bursary which paid his school expenses, he never missed a remove or failed to gain a prize, and finally won a close scholarship which carried him triumphantly to Queen's College.
Name after name was called out; a twenty pound bursary to the first, one of seventeen to the next, three or four of fifteen and fourteen, and so on, for about twenty, and still no Robert Falconer. At last, lagging wearily in the rear, he heard his name, went up listlessly, and was awarded five pounds. He crept home, wrote to his grandmother, and awaited her reply.
Gav of course was to enter the bursary lists anon, and he had supposed that Cathro would have the last year's schooling of him; but no, his father decided to send him for the grand final grind to Mr. Ogilvy of Glen Quharity, a famous dominie between whom and Mr. Dishart existed a friendship that none had ever got at the root of. Mr.
"They have given me the First Bursary, father," said Robin. No one spoke, but Robin saw tears running down his mother's face. John Fordyce deliberately turned back several pages of the Bible. "We will sing," he said in a clear voice, "in the Twenty-third Psalm the whole of it! 'The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want "
There is something inside him, or so I think at times, that is his master, and rebels against book-learning. No, I can't tell what it is; when we know that we shall know the real Tommy." "And yet," said McLean, curiously, "you advise his being allowed to compete for a bursary. That, if you will excuse my saying so, sounds foolish to me."
"Listen to this. At the bursary examinations there was some English we had to turn into Latin, and it said, 'No man ever attained supreme eminence who worked for mere lucre; such efforts must ever be bounded by base mediocrity.
"I dinna," the warper acknowledged quietly, "but I've been trying to do my duty by him for all that. It's no every laddie that gets three years' schooling straight on end." This was true, but Miss Ailie used it to press her point. "You have done so well by him," she said, "that I think you should keep him at school for another year or two, and so give him a chance of carrying a bursary.
But beyond, and again beyond, shines the lapwing of heaven not, as a faithless generation thinks, to delude like them, but to lead the seeker home to the nest of the glory. Last of all, Alec was forced to take refuge in his books. The competition fell on the next day, and he gained a small bursary. As it happened, no one but Alec had come up from Glamerton that year.
For he had to sit down and write to his grandmother informing her that Dr. Anderson had employed him to copy for the printers a book of his upon the Medical Boards of India, and that as he was going to pay him for that and other work at a rate which would secure him ten shillings a week, it would be a pity to lose a year for the chance of getting a bursary next winter.
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