Not tall in stature, his head was somewhat bald, and he bore a striking resemblance to our ex-President, Van Buren.

He showed me in his house some choice literary treasures; among them a little Greek Testament, given to his great-grandfather, the famous John Brown, of Haddington, the eminent commentator.

Its history was curious: Brown of, Haddington, was a poor shepherd boy, and once he walked twenty miles through the night to St.Andrews to get a copy of the Greek Testament.
The book-seller at first laughed at him and said: "Boy, if you can read a verse in this book, you may have it." Forthwith the lad read the verse off glibly, and was permitted to carry off the Testament in triumph.

You may well suppose that the little volume is a sacred heirloom in the Brown family, which for four generations has been famous.

Of course, the author of "Rab and His Friends" had several pictures of the illustrious dog that figured in his beautiful story, and I noticed a pet spaniel lying on the sofa in the drawing room.