Note 42 — Chapter II · GLENLAIR—CHILDHOOD—1831 TO 1841.
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The scene is at St. Mary’s Isle, and the younger boy is Lord Charles Scott, then four years old (September 1843).—Mr. A. Macmillan, the publisher, in particular, has a vivid recollection of Maxwell’s ingenious ways of entertaining children, exhibiting his colour-top, showing them how to make paper boomerangs, etc.