Merchiston Castle School, 1855-58

Recollections of Merchiston
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I
READ
with some amusement the notice of Mr. Fletcher
Moss' " Sixth Book of Pilgrimages to Old Homes,"
which appeared in
The Merchistonian,
and have since
then had an opportunity of referring to the book
itself.
I quite well remember Fletcher Moss at Merchiston
in the session
1856-57,
but he had vanished from my
horizon until he was recalled by the notice of his book.
He was a quiet inoffensive boy, who took little or no
part in the life of the school, and the school did not
much concern itself about him. He did carry off a
prize in arithmetic, as he says—it was a first prize in
the B division of the Fifth class—and, as he seems to
think well of being ahead of the Scots, it may be noted
that the second prize went to George Laing, another
English boy, and the third to Hugh Tennent, an
A.