LATIN CONSTRUING . . . . . . Partially preserved. LATIN WRITING . . . . . . . Ditto. GREEK CONSTRUING . . . . . . Getting very bad from disuse. GREEK WRITING . . . . . . . Ditto. ARITHMETIC . . . . . . . . . Entirely abandoned. HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . So-so. GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . Improved by foreign travel. DICTATION . . . . . . . . . Ditto by business letters. FRENCH . . . . . . . . . . . Ditto by travelling. DRAWING . . . . . . . . . . Grown rather rusty. RELIGION . . . . . . . . . . Unhappily not to the taste of the British public. CONDUCT . . . . . . . . . . Not so bad as it is painted. [1] Charles MacLean, to whom he referred more than thirty years later, in his Rectorial address at St. Andrews (p. 188). [2] During Bute's travels with Lady Elizabeth Moore, in the course of her efforts to retain the custody of her little ward, his most trusted retainer was one Jack Wilson. The pertinacity with which the child was pursued, and the extent of Wilson's devotion, are attested by the known fact that on one occasion he knocked a writ-server down the stairs of a Rothesay hotel where Bute was staying with Lady Elizabeth. Wilson was accustomed always to sleep outside his young master's door. He rose later to be head-keeper at Mountstuart, and died there on May 23, 1912. [3] It seems right to mention that Bute had another reason, apart from his attachment to Lady Elizabeth Moore, for his apparently unreasonable hostility to his other guardian. One of his strongest feelings at this time was his almost passionate devotion to the memory of his mother; and he never forgot what he called General Stuart's "gross disrespect" in not accompanying her remains from Edinburgh, where she died, to Bute, where she was buried. "He left her body," wrote Bute to an intimate friend from Christ Church, Oxford, "to be attended on that long and troublesome journey, in the depth of winter, only by women, servants, and myself, a child of twelve." [4] Hon. Walter Stewart, afterwards colonel commanding 12th Lancers (died 1908). He was about eighteen months younger than Bute. [5] Hon. Fitzroy Stewart (died 1914). He was at this time just five years old. [6] This anecdote was communicated to a weekly journal (_M.A.P._) soon after Lord Bute's death, by the son of the master of his old school. {18} CHAPTER II HARROW AND CHRIST CHURCH 1862-1866