SADDLE AND SIRLOIN; 



OR, 



ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE. 



CHAPTER I. 



" At Doncaster, at York, and Leeds, 

 And merry Carlisle had he been ; 

 And all along the lowlands fair, 

 All through the bonny shire of Ayr ; 

 And far as Aberdeen. 



" And he had seen Caernarvon's towers, 

 And well he knew the spire of Sarum, 

 And he had been where Lincoln's bell 

 Flings o'er the fen that ponderous knell 

 His far renowned alarum 1" 



Wordsworth. 



Over the Border Professor Dick Mr. Hall Maxwell Mr. Ivie Camp- 

 bell John Benzies, the Herdsman John White, the Gamekeeper 

 The Master of the Teviotdale The Earl of Glasgow. 



TOLLMAN OF GLYNDE loved a day with his 

 LJ lemon-and-white beagles. If a hare beat him 

 at nightfall he would mark with a stick the spot 

 where they last spoke to her, and return there first 

 thing next morning. How he dealt with " the situ- 

 ation" in the early dews we know not. This we do 

 know, that when another summer found us in cannie 

 Cumberland, to take up our " field and fern" tale for 

 England, our first impulse was to cast back over the 

 Border. 



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