ep within doors to-day with his yelping beagles, I shall have one day's peace and ease; and my lambs shall have one day's peace and ease; and poor Trimm

m in the face, but she could not tell him what was the reason that

ver you hear the sound of the horn, and the opening swell of the harriers, you take your tail between your legs and set off for home, as there were something o

ed towards the Abbey, then at her

e cocking your ears at that rate. Then if th

as if he had been enumerating all the little yellow flowers that grew on the hill. Yet it was not for want of thought that Croudy was walking in that singular position, with his body bent forward, and the one ear turned down towards the ground, and the other up. No, no! for Croudy was trying to think all that he could; a

likes the women-warst ava!-and, fourthly and lastly, he misca's a' the words, and ca's the streamers the Roara Boriawlis-ha! ha! ha!-Wha wad converse wi' a man, or wha can converse wi' a man, that ca's the streamers the Roara Boriawlis? Fools hae aye something about them no like ither fock! Now, gin I war to gang to sic a man as that, an' tell him that I heard a dog speakin', and another dog answering it, what wad he say? He wad speak English; sae ane wad get nae sense out o' him. If I war to gang to the Master o' Seaton an' tak my aith, what wad he say? Clap me up i' the prison for a daft man an' a fool. I couldna bide that. Then again, if we lose our king-an' him the last o' the race-Let me see if I can calculate what wad be the consequence? The English-Tut! the English! wha cares for them? But let me see now-should the truth be tauld or no tauld?-That's the question. What's truth? Ay, there comes th

row to yo

um

arted to-day, honest Croudy. I fear pretty P

-women!

logie, Croudy? That was a sad busines

nowes an' Gladswood linn? Look ye, they spread an' tail a

ation of th

it wad be some Boriawlis, Gale-some day Boriawlis; but

another, and always between taking a hearty laugh at Gale. "Come away, Mumps," said he; "I can crack some wi' you, though ye're rather slow i' t

What must it have been in those days when all the ruins of monastery, tower, and citadel, which still make the traveller to stand in wonder and admiration, were then in their full splendour. Traveller! would you see Scotland in all its wild and majestic grandeur? sail along its western firths from south to nor

n some time thereafter sounded a bugle, and then in a moment the king and his attendants left the Abbey at full speed; and how beautiful was their winding ascent up the hill! The king had betted with the Earl of Hume and Lord Belhaven, seven steers, seven palfreys, seven deer-greyhounds, and seven gold rings, that his two snow-white ho

rly, jeered the king about his wager, which his majesty only answered by speaking to one of the hounds that stood next to him. "Ah! Mooly, Mooly, if you deceive me, it is the first time; but I have another matter to think on than you this morning, Mooly." Mooly fawned on her royal master; jumped up at the stirrup, and took his foot playfully in her mouth, while Keryl, the king's steed, laid back his ear

e, vexed and astonished; "Trimmy, halloo! h

to Eildon-Hall. "The plague be in the beast," said Gale to himself, "if ever I saw any t

Melrose; the riders spurred in the same direction. The dogs in a moment turning short, went out between the two eastern hills, distancing all the riders, whom they left straggling up the steep after them as they could, and when these came over the height there was a fine roe-deer lying newly slain, and the two snow-white hounds panting and rolling themselves on the grass beside her. The king c

returned

ght, "that to this day they have never been see

e king; "pause until I recollect-No; I do not know t

ever seen, nor do they ever catch any thing; and that the moment they get out of sight, there the deer is found

d the king; "but as far as my memory serves me,

old man. "Methinks there is something very odd about them-Sure the

d pretended to be winding some

" said the king; "you sh

ure," continued the aged knight, "where-

way, to be sure!" replied the king,

ay how, or where, or from whom it was

shook h

ence.-Is it true that you got these hounds at the very same time that th

lords were momentarily in the same posture; the query acted on them all like an electrical shock. The o

ions have my simple questions raised in your mind?-Your majesty

Mary that it were eve

any thing relating to two dogs can give your majesty troubl

know, and

w him again if

t the old man, an

m, or borrow the

!" was t

you give in exc

small

ajesty pleases, what

" said the king, with a

again if you saw it?" said

, proudly, "that dares to questio

s such a question to ask at one who has scarcely ever been

ho you are.-My Lord of Hume, do you know who the reverend old gentleman

ajesty. Let me see-It is very singular that I cannot recollect his name-I have seen the face a t

perceived that his eyes were fixed on him in astonishment. The earl's, as by sympathy, likewise settled by degrees into as much

d Hume; "I did not once think that the old ge

ngs which I am certain no being on earth knew of, save

urious to take another look of this mysterious old m

ld man," said the king, "

sire!"

said a

e time to the spot where the old man and his

"that you have let him go from

rse both," said they; "else he could not oth

e by the greater part of them, and cursed himself that he had not taken a better look at the devil when he was so near h