16 BOUGH TRAVELLING. 



open, according to the direction ; and 

 requested, at the same time, a saddle 

 might be put for me on one of the 

 horses. Then tossing off a glass of whiskey- 

 toddy, I took leave of the Scotch damsel; 

 and, mounting a groggy, stale old animal, 

 a pet of the Scotch coachman, who was 

 not well pleased at my warming him up 

 a little with the ash-plant I always car- 

 ried with me, we commenced a two-and- 

 twenty miles stage. 



Such travelling would perhaps be 

 scarcely worth recording ; but it bore 

 such a novel appearance to me at the 

 time, the country too being altogether so 

 strange, I could not help afterwards 

 clothing it in my memory with rather 

 an odd-coloured robe, and considering it 

 as approaching to a romantic adven- 

 ture. 



The road seemed to lay chiefly in a 

 valley, now and then crossing a little 



