simple academy at Gandish's. Besides, he drew very
well; there could be no doubt about that. Caricatures of the students, of
course, were passing constantly among them, and in revenge for one which a huge
red-haired Scotch student, Mr. Sandy M'Collop, had made of John James, Clive
perpetrated a picture of Sandy which set the whole room in a roar; and when the
Caledonian giant uttered satirical remarks against the assembled company,
averring that they were a parcel of sneaks, a set of lick-spittles, and using
epithets still more vulgar, Clive slipped off his fine silk-sleeved coat in an
instant, invited Mr. M'Collop into the back-yard, instructed him in a science
which the lad himself had acquired at Grey Friars, and administered two black
eyes to Sandy, which prevented the young artist from seeing for some days after
the head of the Laocoon which he was copying. The Scotchman's superior weight
and age might have given the combat a different conclusion, had in endured long
after Clive's brilliant opening attack with his right and left; but Professor
Gandish came out of his painting-room at the sound of battle, and could scarcely
credit his own eyes when he saw those of poor M'Collop so darkened. To do the
Scotchman justice, he bore Clive no rancour. They became friends there, and
afterwards at Rome, whither they subsequently went to pursue their studies. The
fame of Mr. M'Collop as an artist has long since been established. His pictures
of Lord Lovat in Prison, and Hogarth painting him, of the Blowing-up of the Kirk
of Field (painted for M'Collop of M'Collop), of the Torture of the Covenanters,
the Murder of the Regent, the Murder of Rizzio, and other historical pieces, all
of course from Scotch history, have established his reputation in South as well
as in North Britain. No one would suppose from the gloomy character of his works
that Sandy M'Collop is one of the most jovial souls alive. Within six months
after their little difference, Clive and he were the greatest of friends, and it
was by the former's suggestion that Mr. James Binnie gave Sandy his first
commission, who selected the cheerful subject of the young Duke of Rothesay
starving in prison.
    During this period Mr. Clive assumed the toga virilis, and beheld with
inexpressible satisfaction the first growth of those mustachios which have since
given him such a marked appearance. Being at Gandish's, and so near the dancing
academy,