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HERE was a railway being constructed at St. Andrews. THE Not that that worthy burgh was at the time we are speaking of destitute of such evidence of civilisation. It was accessible by means of a line which, meandering leisurely round among the coast towns of Fife, came in due course to Leuchars, and thence, while proceeding on its way to Dundee, sent a kind of back-handed offshoot to reach, in such circuitous fashion, the remote and secluded seat of learning. Travelling thus, you arrived there from Edinburgh (according to one highly respectable authority) in a space of time only slightly longer than that in which you might have walked it. But this was a new line-a branch line connecting St. Andrews with some of those picturesque, sleepy little coast towns hitherto untouched by the railway; and, naturally, its construction entailed a considerable increase, for the time being, in the population of the burgh. The navvies made the streets noisy on Saturday nights, and filled the public-houses to overflowing. They fluttered the nerves of timid elderly ladies who had been dining out, or attending missionary meetings in the evening; their presence was felt, with a not wholly unpleasant horror, to be a wholesale invasion of the dangerous classes; and benevolent people made attempts to "reach" (and presumably improve) them by preaching to them and giving them teas, the latter process being looked upon as a stepping-stone to the former. They were a mixed lot, these "men and brethren" whom the well-meaning tea-givers examined through their eye-glasses as a VOL. CCLXXX. NO. 1981. B possibly not altogether noxious, but certainly unknown and curious species of animal. There were those who possessed brute strength, but little else, whether intellect or moral sense, and who, when not at work, were nearly always drunk, and frequently quarrelling. There were others, good-natured giants, who were honest, if not clever, went peaceably and soberly about their daily task, and saved their money for wives at a distance; and others again-more numerous, I am afraid, than the last-honest and good-natured enough, but cursed with a constitutional inability to keep sober. There was the skilled workman who had fallen lower and lower through drink till forced to take any job he could get. And there were some, here and there, who could not formerly have been classed as workmen of any sort who had once owned names which they had dropped and would have been glad to forget-who had come to this because Faith, we went the pace, and went it blind, And the world was more than kin while we had the ready tin; Sometimes one of these would meet another in whose eyes he read a fate like his own. But they always shrank from each other and passed on. But there was one who could not be referred to any of these classes, if such they can be called. (I don't much believe in classifying people according to types; in the last resort every individual would require a class to himself.) He stood alone, and was more or less of a mystery to any one who took the trouble to observe him; for while it was perfectly clear that he was no navvy, unless by right of a very recent assumption of the character, there were striking differences between him and the "gentlemen rankirs" referred to above. He was a man of education, evidently-in fact, it would not be too much to say, of learning-yet he did not give the impression of having a black and bitter past behind him. On the contrary, he was cheerful-sometimes almost uproariously so; but he was never known to get drunk, or, in fact, to be under the influence of liquor at all. And the fallen gentleman, as a rule, drinks-small blame to him, perhaps. Can you wonder that we drug ourselves from pain? This man was Irish, like many of his fellows, and usually affected a brogue which, as one has expressed it, "you might have hung your hat on." He was of middle height and sturdy build; possessed, too, of great strength; blue-eyed and sandy-haired, the lower part of his face almost hidden by a short, bushy beard. His complexion-what was visible of it-was a rich brick-red; but those who |