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buttresses, and light tracery, but dimly seen in the 

 solemn mass. A faint light twinkled for a space 

 among the tombstones ; soon it was extinct, and two 

 figures passed off in the shadow, who had been digging 

 a grave even at that late hour. 



As the night advanced, a change began to take place. 

 Clouds heaved up over the horizon; the wind was 

 heard in murmurs; the rack hurried athwart the moon; 

 and utter darkness fell upon river, mountain, and 

 haugh. Then the gust swelled louder, and the storm 

 struck fierce and sudden against the casement. But 

 as the morrow dawned, though the rain-drops still 

 hung upon the leaf, the clouds sailed away, the sun 

 broke forth, and all was fair and tranquil. 



The fisherman was sent for express. His apparel 

 may be taken as a general sample of the garb of the 

 piscator on that river, where "Flora discloses her 

 beauties "par excellence. A hat with salmon flies round 

 the crown, the loop of each gut being passed over the 

 head of a pin stuck into the said hat, and the barb of 

 the hook fastened into the felt. The bonnet on such 

 occasions is laid aside. A short coat or jacket; waist- 

 coat according to fancy ; blue pantaloons ; and a pair 

 of colossal shoes, studded with splatter-headed nails. 



"Well, Wattie, I am glad you are come; for you 

 shall see me catch a dozen salmon to-day." 



" You mun be a warlock then ; for the cleil a man 

 atween Bolside and Kelso, beside yoursel, wull tak ae 

 saumon the day. If ye were even to throw the *Lady of 



* The Flower of Yarrow, married to Scott of Harden. 



