[Footnote 1: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vi. 172-3. The edition referred to is throughout the edition of 1839 in ten volumes.]
[Footnote 2: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, x. 241.]
[Footnote 3: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, i. 243-4.]
[Footnote 4: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, i. 128.]
As Scott grew up, entered the classes of the college, and began his legal studies, first as apprentice to his father, and then in the law classes of the University, he became noticeable to all his friends for his gigantic memory,--the rich stores of romantic material with which it was loaded,--his giant feats of industry for any cherished purpose,--his delight in adventure and in all athletic enterprises,--his great enjoyment of youthful "rows," so long as they did not divide the knot of friends to which he belonged, and his skill in peacemaking amongst his own set. During his apprenticeship his only means of increasing his slender allowance with funds which he could devote to his favourite studies, was to earn money by copying, and he tells us himself that he remembered writing "120 folio pages with no interval either for food or rest," fourteen or fifteen hours' very hard work at the very least,--expressly for this purpose.