text:  How did the fellows come not to like John Brown?--pronounced "most respectable" by the principal--declared by his scout to be "the quietest gentleman as he ever a knowed;" admitted by the under-graduates to be "a monstrous good fellow but rather slow;" how came John Brown to fail in recommending himself to the favour of his pastors and masters--the dean and tutors of ----? Why in the first place John Brown the elder was a wine-merchant; a well-educated man a well-behaved man; but still a wine-merchant