BOYHOOD AND COLLEGE DAYS
'A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.'
—Longfellow.
... 'Strange enchantments from the past
And memories of the friends of old,
And strong tradition binding fast
The "flying terms" with bands of gold.'
—Andrew Lang.
The years 1861 and 1862 found Louis, with his childhood left behind him, a boy among other boys who sat on the forms and who played in the yards of the Academy, at which, during the greater part of the present century, many of the sons of Edinburgh men, and indeed of Scotsmen everywhere at home and abroad, have received their education.