They presented an offering in a beautiful embroidered purse, and after
much shaking of hands we went home, and sat down to the supper-table
for a little more chat before going to bed. The next morning--as we
had only till noon to stay in Aberdeen--our friends, the lord provost
and Mr. Leslie, the architect, came immediately after breakfast to
show us the place.
About two o'clock we started from Aberdeen, among crowds of friends,
to whom we bade farewell with real regret.
At Stonehaven station, where we stopped a few minutes, there was quite
a gathering of the inhabitants to exchange greetings, and afterwards,
at successive stations along the road, many a kindly face and voice
made our journey a pleasant one.
When we got into Dundee it seemed all alive with welcome. We went in
the carriage with the lord provost, Mr. Thoms, to his residence, where
a party had been waiting dinner for us for some time.
The meeting in the evening was in a large church, densely crowded, and
conducted much as the others had been. When they came to sing the
closing hymn, I hoped they would sing Dundee; but they did not, and I
fear in Scotland, as elsewhere, the characteristic national melodies
are giving way before more modern ones.
We left Dundee at two o'clock, by cars, for Edinburgh again, and in
the evening attended another _soiree_ of the workingmen of
Edinburgh.
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