rivers and brooks divide as they take their course to the Eastern and Western seas. His passion for the chase in all its forms, but especially for fox-hunting, as followed in the fashion described in Chapter XXV., in conducting which he was skilful beyond most men n the South Highlands, was the distinguishing point in his character.

When the tale on which these comments are written became rather popular, the name of Dandie Dinmont was generally given to h.m, which Mr. Davidson received with great good-humor, only saying, while he distinguished the author by the name applied to him in the country, where his own is so common-"that the Sheriff had not written about him mair than about other folk, but only about his dogs." An English lady of high rank and fashion, being desirous to possess a brace of the celebrated Mustard and Pepper terriers, expresssed her wishes in a letter which was literally addressed to Dandie Dinmont, under which very general direction it reached Mr. Davidson, who was justly proud of the application, and fai ed not to comply with a request which did him and his favorite attendants so much honor.

I trust I shall not be considered as offending the memory of a kind and worthy man, if I mention a little t.al. of character wh.ch occurred in Mr. Davidson's last summers. I use the wo

lent clergyman who attended him, who gave the account to a reverend genteman of the same persuaston.

"I read to Mr. Davidson the very suitable and interesting truths you addressed to him. He listened to them with great seriousness, and has uniformly displayed a deep concern about his soul's salvation. He died on the first Sabbath of the year [1820]; an apoplectic stroke deprived him in an instant of all sensation, but happy his brother was at his bedside, for he had detained him from the meeting-house that day to be near him, although he felt himself not much worse than usual. So you have got the last little Mustard that the hand of Dandie Dinmont bestowed.

"His ruling passion was strong even on the eve of death. Mr. Baille's fox-hounds had started a fox onposite to his window a few weeks ago, and as soon as he heard the sound of the dogs his eyes glistened; he insisted on getting out of bed, and with much difficulty got to the window and there enjoyed the fun, as he called it. When

came down to ask for him, he said, he had seen Reynard, but had not seen his death. If it had been the will of Providence,' he added, 'I would have liked to have been after him; but I am glad that I got to the window, and am thankful for what I saw, for it has done me a great deal of good. Notwithstanding these eccentricities [adds the sensible and liberal clergyman], I sincerely hope and believe he has gone to a better world, and better company and enjoyments.'

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If some part of this little narrative may excite a smile, it is one which is consistent with the most perfect respect for the simpleminded invalid and his kind and judicious religious instructor, who, we hope, will not be displeased with our giving, we trust, a correct edition of an anecdote which has been pretty generally circulated. The race of Pepper and Mustard are in the highest estimation at this day, not only for vermin-killing, but for intelligence and fidelity. Those who, like the author, possess a brace of them, consider them as very desirable companions.

NOTE 4.-LUM CLEEKS, p. 160

The cleek here intimated is the iron hook, or hooks, depending from the chimney of a Scottish cottage, on which the pot is suspended when boiling. The same appendage is often called the crook. The salmon is usually dried by hanging it up, after being split and rubbed with salt, in the smoke of the turf fire about the cleeks, where it is said to "reist." that preparation being so termed. The salmon thus preserved is eaten as a delicacy, under the name of kipper, a luxury to which Dr. Dedgill has given his sanction as an ingredient of the Scottish breakfast. See the excellent novel entitled "Marriage."

NOTE 5.-CLAN SURNAMES, p. 161

The distinction of individuals by nicknames when they possess

no property is still common on the Border, and indeed necessary, from the number of persons having the same name, In the small viage of Lustruther, in Roxburghshire, there dwelt, in the memory of man, four inhabitants called Andrew, or Dandie, Oliver. They were dista guished as Dandie Eassil-gate, Dandie Wassil-gate, Dandie Thumbie, and Dandie Dumbie. The two first had their names from living eastward and westward in the street of the village; the third from something peculiar n the conformation of his thumb; the fourth from his taciturn habits.

It is also a well-known jest that a beggar-woman, repulsed om door to door as she solicited quarters througn a village of Annandate, asked, in her despair, if there were no Christians in the place. To which the hearers, concluding that she inquired for some persons surnamed, answered, "Na, na. there are nae Christians here; we are a' Johnstones and Jardines."

NOTE 6.-GYPSY SUPERSTITIONS, p. 168

The mysterious rights in which Meg Merillies is described as engaging belong to her character as a queen of her race. All know that gypsies in every country claim acquaintance with the gift of fortunetelling; but, as is often the case, they are liable to the superstitions of which they ava themselves in others. The correspondent of Blackwood, quoted in the Introduction to this Tale, gives us some information on the subject of their credulity.

"I have ever understood," he says, speaking of the Yetholm gypsies, "that they are extremely superstitious, carefully noticing the formation of the clouds, the fight of particular birds, and the soughing of the winds before attempting any enterprise. They have been known for several successive days to turn back with their loaded carts, asses, and children, upon meeting with persons whom they considered of unlucky aspect; nor do they ever proceed upon their summer peregrinations without some propitious omen of their fortunate return. They also burn the clothes of their dead, not so much from any apprehension of infection being communicated by them, as the conviction that the very circumstance of wearing them would shorten the days of the living. They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conce.ve that the del tinkles at the lykewake' of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse."

These notions are not peculiar to the gypsies; but, having been once generally entertained among the Scottish common people, are now only found lingering among those who are the most rude in their habits and most devoid of instruction. The popular idea, that the protracted struggle between life and death is painfully prolonged by keeping the door of the apartment shut, was received as certain by the superstitious eld of Scotland. But neither was it to be thrown wide open. To leave the door ajar was the plan adopted by the old crones who understood the mysteries of death-beds and lykewakes. In that case there was room for the imprisoned spirit to escape; and vet an obstacle, we have been assured, was offered to the entrance of any frightful form which might otherwise intrude itself. The threshold of a habitation was in some sort a sacred limit, and the subject of much superstition. A bride, even to this day, is always lifted over it, a rule derived apparently from the Romans.

Note 7.-High Jinks, p. 238

I believe this strange species of game or revel to be the same mentioned in old English plays, and which was called "Coming from Tripoli." When the supposed king was seated in his post of eleva tion, the most active fellow in the party came into the presence, lea ing over as many chairs and stools as he could manage to spring over. He is announced as

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He then announces to the mock monarch the destruction of his army and fleet. This species of High J.nks was ca led "Ge unto," from the name of the Tuckices genician. i use dien played at L. Anog the rest. excellent fr no more (the late Mr. Ke.th of Dunno.tar and Rave ston.), gave me a ludicrous account of a cog endelian w burgh rather unexpectedly, and finding his son, who he had hoped was d.gently studying the law in silence and seclusion, busily engaged in personating the king in a full drama of "Gerunto." The monarch, somewhat surprised at first, passed it off with assurance, cald.ng for a seat to his worthy father, and refusing to accost h.m otherwise than in the slang of the character. This incident-in itself the more comic situation of the two-suggested the scene in the text. The old play referred to in this note was probably Fletcher's comedy of "Monsieur Thomas," Act iv., no. 2.

Seb. Get up to that window there, and presently,

Like a most complete gentleman come from Tripoly.
Tho. Good Lord, sir, how are you misled! What fancies-
Fitter for idle boys and drunkards, let me speak't.
Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, by Dyce, vol. vii., p. 376.

The phrase "To come on high from Trinoly" is 'n to be found in Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman," Act v., S. 1.-Laing.]

NOTE 8.--ROADS OF LIDDESDALE, D. 260

The roads of Liddesdale, in Dandie Dinmont's days, could not be said to exist, and the district was only access bie through a succession of tremendous morasses. About thirty years ago the author himself was the first person who ever drove a little open carriage into these wilds, the excellent roads by which they are now traversed being then in some progress. The people stared with no small wonat a sight which many of them had never witnessed in their live before.

NOTE 9.-TAPPIT HEN, D. 267

The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret

Weel she loed a Hawick gill,
And leugh to see a tappit hen.

I have seen one of these formidable stoups at Provost Haswell's, at Jedburgh, n the days of yo.e. It was a pawte measure, the claret being in ancient days served from the tap, and had the figure of a hen upon the lid. In later times the name was given to a glass bottle of the same dimensions. These are rare apparitions among the degenerate topers of modern days.

NOTE 10.-CONVIVIAL HABITS OF THE SCOTTISH BAR, p. 267

The account given by Mr. Pleydell of his sitting down in the midst of a revel to draw an appeal case was taken from a story told me by an aged gentleman of the elder Pres.dent Dundas of Arniston (father of the younger Pres.dent and of Lord Melv.le). It had been thought very desirable, while that distinguished lawyer was king's counsel, that his assistance should be obtained in drawing an appeal case, which, as occasion for such writings then rarely occurred, was held to be matter of great nicety. The solicitor employed for the appellant, attended by my informant acting as his clerk, went to the Lord Advocate's chambers in the Fishmarket Close, as I think. It

was Saturday at noon, the Court was just dismissed, the Lord Advocate had changed his dress and booted himself, and his servant and horses were at the foot of the close to carry him to Arniston. It was scarcely possible to get him to listen to a word respecting bus:ness. The wily agent, however, on pretence of asking one or two questions, which would not detain him half an hour, drew his Lordship, who was no less an eminent bon vivant than a lawyer of unequal.ed talent, to take a whet at a celebrated tavern, when the learned counsel became gradually involved in a spirited discussion of the law points of the case. At length it occurred to him that he might as well ride to Arniston in the cool of the evening. The horses were directed to be put in the stable, but not to be unsaddled. Dinner was ordered, the law was laid aside for a time, and the bottle circulated very freely. At nine o'clock at night, after he had been honoring Bacchus for so many hours, the Lord Advocate ordered his horses to be unsaddled; paper, pen and ink were brought; he began to dictate the appeal case, and continued at his task till four o'clock the next morning. By next day's post the solicitor sent the case to London, a chef-d'oeuvre of its kind; and in which, my informant assured me, it was not necessary on revisal to correct five words. I am not, therefore, conscious of having overstepped accuracy in describing the manner in which Scottish lawyers of the old time occasionally united the worship of Bacchus with that of Themis. My informant was Alexander Keith, Esq., grandfather to my friend, the present Sir Alexander Keith of Ravelstone, and apprentice at the time to the writer who conducted the cause. [Compare Lockhart's Life of Scott, vol i., pp. 281-288.]

NOTE 11.-GYPSEY COOKING, p. 320

We must again have recourse to the contribution to Blackwood's Magazine, April, 1817:

To the admirers of good eating gypsey cookery seems to have little to recommend it. I can assure you, however, that the cook of a nobleman of high distinction. a person who never reaus ven novel without an eye to the enlargement of the culinary science, has added to the 'Almanach des Gourmands' a certa n Parage a la reg Merrilies de Derncleugh, consisting of game and poultry of all kinds. stewed with vegetables into a soup, whi h rivals in savor and richness the gallant messes of Camacho s wedding, and which the Baron of Bradwardine would certainly have reckoned among the epulae lautiores."

The artist alluded to in this passage is Mons. Florence, cook to Henry and Charles, late Dukes of Buccleuch, and of high distinction in his profession.

NOTE 12.-LORD MONBODDO, p. 343

The Burnet whose taste for the evening meal of the ancients is quoted by Mr. Pleydel was the celebrated metaphysici n and excelent man, Lord Monboddo, whose coea wil not soon be for, ot en by those who have shared his c ass c hospital y. As a Scottish judg he took the designat.on of hs fm ly is ate. His philos hy, as is well known, was of a fanc.ful and somewhat fantastic charac. r; but his learning was deep, and he was possessed of a sin u. power of eloquence, which reminded the hearer of the os rotu du of the Grove or Academe. Enthusiastically partial to class cai hab ts ns entertainments were always giv n in the even ng, when here was a circulation of excellent Bordeaux, in flasks garlande wh roses, which were also strewed on the table after t m ner of Horace The best society, whether in respect of rank or 1 e ary diзun was always to be found in St. John's Street. Canongat. Th' conv rsation of the excellent old man, his high, gentlemanlik, civa ous spirit, the learning and wit with w ich he defended h s fanciful poradoxes, the kind and liberal spir.f h.sh sp tality, ma tender thes noctes coenaeque dear to who, Ike the author (though then young), had the honor of sitting at his b.ard.

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NOTE 13.-LAWYERS' SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, p. 345

It is probably true, as observed by Counsellor Pleydell, that a lawyer's anxiety about his case, supposing him to have been some time in practice, will seldom disturb his rest or digestion. Clients will, however, sometimes fondly entertain a different opinion. I was told by an excellent judge, now no more, of a country gentleman who, addressing his leading counsel, my informer, then an advocate in great practice, on the morning of the day on which the case was to be pleaded, said, with a singular bonhomie, "Weel, my Lord [the counsel was Lord Advocate], the awful day is come at last. I have nae been able to sleep a wink for thinking of it; nor, I dare say, your Lordship either."

NOTE 14.-WHISTLING, p. 358

Whistling, among the tenantry of a large estate, is when an individual gives such information to the proprietor or his managers as to occasion the rent of his neighbor's farms being raised, which, for obvious reasons, is held a very unpopular practice.

NOTE 15.-HEREZELD, p. 393

This hard word is placed in the mouth of one of the aged tenants. In the old feudal tenures the herezeld, the best horse or other animal on the vassal's lands, became the right of the superior. The only remnant of this custom is what is called the sasine, or a fee of certain estimated value, paid to the sheriff of the county, who gives possession to the vassals of the crown.

NOTE 16.-THE GAD, D. 404

This mode of securing prisoners was universally practised in Scotland after condemnation. When a man received sentence of death he was put upon the gad, as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh till the old Jail was taken down some years since, and perhaps may be still [1829] in use.