Paton

When about eleven he accompanied his elder brother, Alexander, to Mr. Paton's school at Falkirk.

By the kindness of Sir Nol Paton a most perfect fourteenth century specimen is illustrated.

Mr Paton was as deaf as Pluto to all excuses, and as inexorable as Rhadamanthus in his retributive dispensations.

But Mr Paton, allowing for his violent frame of mind, took no notice of this last affront.

Mr Paton stopped, and looked with the greatest eagerness over every corner of the desk.