Chronicles of the Cumming Club and memories of old academy days, MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLVI . thoughts of Us : Move to St. Andrew Square :Thirty-third meeting : Annals proposed, page 91 CHAPTER VIII. CHANGES AND CHANCES. Fortunes wheel : The Class and the Services: George Burnes:At Multan and Gujcrat : Sir John Kayes version of hisstory : The Crimea : James Paton in the Trenches : PatrickWatson and Nobby Brown: Frank Suttie and the Naval CONTENTS XIX Brigade : Explosion of the Redan Magazine : Persian Campaign :Assault on Fort of Reshire: Gallantry and death of Utterson :His burial-place at Bushire :
Chronicles of the Cumming Club and memories of old academy days, MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLVI . thoughts of Us : Move to St. Andrew Square :Thirty-third meeting : Annals proposed, page 91 CHAPTER VIII. CHANGES AND CHANCES. Fortunes wheel : The Class and the Services: George Burnes:At Multan and Gujcrat : Sir John Kayes version of hisstory : The Crimea : James Paton in the Trenches : PatrickWatson and Nobby Brown: Frank Suttie and the Naval CONTENTS XIX Brigade : Explosion of the Redan Magazine : Persian Campaign :Assault on Fort of Reshire: Gallantry and death of Utterson :His burial-place at Bushire : Reminiscence of Colonel Ballard, : The Indian Mutiny: Cockburns Ruse: The Mutineersoutwitted : Fleeming Jenicin in the Mediterranean : A brokencable; Life at great depths: Alexander Strange and theMoplahs : Coolness and humanity : Fanatic leader disarmed :Letter from the Rocky Mountains : Andrew Wilson and Cock-burn : In the Abode of Snow \ Marriage in the Court Journal:Sir Edward Harland, Mayor of Belfast : The Old Aca-demy,* ..... page III THE MUSTER ROLL, . .129INDEX, 225. H HAIAEIA KAI THS tO^lAt KAI THS APETHS MHTHP PRIMA VESTIGIA When that I was and a little tiny boy ;With hey, ho, the wind and the rain. Twelfth Night. A scholar of rare worth,The gentlest man that kindly Nature drew. E. Channing. CHAPTER I. IT is well-nigh six and forty years since the memor-able day when a group of little boys assembled,on a bright October morning, for the first timeat the Edinburgh Academy—a momentous occasionin their little lives, when the first important step wastaken in learnings path. Hard was it to say whether they were more deeplyimpressed with the dignity of their own position, withthe colossal pillars and awe-inspiring front, and themysterious letters carved over the portals of the school,than with the easy nonchalance of the older boys. Pos-sibly there was more of reverence in those days thanin the present advanced age. There were youngsters from all parts of the king-dom
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