NIMROD'S NORTHERN TOUR. 47 



Like most of those nags who " have the best of it" at the end of an 

 hour and twenty minutes, Crafty is quite thorough-bred and so is his 

 rider; being distinguished among the Hays — nearly as numerous in 

 Scotland, by the bye, as the Jones's are in Wales — as Hay of Drumel- 

 zier, shows that he has the Tweedle blood on one side, and the Hays of 

 Berwickshire, it is well known, were among the most conspicuous of the 

 border chiefs who, amidst feudal broils and foreign wars, rendered 

 themselves remarkable in the annals of their country. Perhaps it was 

 to be attributed to his being thus bred — a scion of this gallant but tur- 

 bulent aristocracy — that the gentleman I am speaking of chose to be an 

 amateur spectator of the bloody scenes on the plains of Waterloo, where 

 I am sorry to add his younger brother was killed. This must have 

 been a woful set-off against the satisfaction and the recollection of 

 that glorious victory. But what said the angel to the Peri, at the gates 

 of Heaven ? 



*< Sweet," said the angel, as she gave 

 The gift into bis radiant hand, 



" Sweet is our welcome of the brave, 

 Who die thus for their native land." 



I have now to speak of another very celebrated character in Lord 

 Elcho's hunt, equally as well known at Melton, but w^here he never 

 happened to be whilst I was there, which accounts for our having been 

 strangers to each other previously to our meeting at Dunse. I allude 

 to Mr. Campbell, the Laird of Saddell, and perhaps better known among 

 his friends by his territorial title of '' Saddell," than by his real and 

 proper name. But this is not the first time I have had Mr. Campbell 

 in '* the book." I got a dressing, I remember, some few years back, from 

 a newspaper critic, who felt squeamish at part of a song I had quoted, 



