Often they lie in such deep cairns of broken boulders that one never gets quite to them, or gets away unhurt.

A judgeship was, however, a second time offered by Lord Cairns in 1876.

You take long sled journeys, you freeze, you starve, you erect cairns at your farthest point north, or west, or whatever it is.

He climbed the highest mountain in those parts, and built a cairn on the summit, in which he hid a powder-horn with a writing within.

We saw also three Cairns of considerable size.

No two men could be less alikeGeorge Wilson with a bright, alert, nimble mind; Cairns with an intellect massive like his bodily frame, and characterised chiefly by strength and momentum; and yet the two fitted into each other, and when they really got to know each other it might truly be said of them that the love between them was wonderful, passing the love of women.

But the most powerful of all the influences which affected John Cairns at this period of his life remains to be mentionedthat which came to him from his religious training and surroundings.

It was informally offered to Cairns through one of the councillors, but again he sent a declinature, and again he kept the matter carefully concealed.

A flash of lightning revealed a lofty cairn above his head.

Study of Andrew Bedient and weeks in which he learned, past the waver of a doubt, that his friend was knit with a glistening and imperishable fabric of courage, brought David Cairns to that high astonishing point, where he could say impatiently, "Rot!"as his former ideals of manhood rose to mind.

In the light of the fire they stood with hands joined, and the little man, too, got to his feet, helping himself up by the cairn against which he had been leaning.

We have passed the last cairn before the depôt, the track is clear ahead, the weather fair, the wind helpful, the gradient downwith any luck we should pick up our depôt in the middle of the morning march.

It came out of the cairn to its master to be helped.

Even Bedient was shaking with fatigue; and Cairns beside him, felt that there wasn't the brain of a babe in his skull.

He has put so much relating to Principal Cairns into an absolutely final form, that he seems to have left no alternative to those who come after him between passing over in silence what he has so well said and reproducing it almost in his words.

George Gilfillan, who, with all his defects, had often gleams of real insight, wrote thus in his diary 14th January 1863: "I got yesterday sent me, per post, a lecture by John Cairns on 'Rationalism, Ritualism, and Pure Religion,' or some such title, and have read it with interest, attention, and a good deal of admiration of its ability and, on the whole, of its spirit.