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tlie year ; and certainly, when dressed and put upon 

 the table, they do not emit such a smell as to require 

 them to be sent out of the room. 



The banks of the Esks, however, will continue to 

 be frequented, even although every specimen of the 

 salmonida3 in them should be utterly destroyed. From 

 Habbie's Howe to Musselburgh, almost every step is 

 interesting. 



" Sweet are the paths, oh ! passing sweet, 

 By Esk's fair stream that run 

 O'er airy steep, through woodland deep, 



Impervious to the sun. 

 From that fair dome where suit is paid, 



By blast of bugle free, 

 To Auchiudiunys hazel shade, 

 And haunted AVoodhouselee. 

 Who knows not Melville's beechy grove. 



And Roslin's rocky glen, 

 Dalkeith, which all the virtues love 

 And classic Ilawthornden ? " 



