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kirk, Roxburgh, Galloway, Dumfries, and Ayr, 

 was adopted by some gentlemen for trousers, 

 veiy likely by Sir W. Scott, who lived near, and 

 also by Lord Brougham, who wore this check. 

 In 1832 or 1834' a fashion set in for this article, 

 without precedent in Scotch manufacturing 

 history. The black-and-white check getting in- 

 troduced to the Oxford and Cambridge men, it 

 became universally worn in a very short time; but, 

 changes are lightsome, and a desire for other 

 colours of the same texture and material took 

 place, and brown-and-drab Tweels, often written 

 in the invoices to the Londoners, Twee d , which 

 was meant to be Tweelds ; the word Tweed came 

 to be the common name of all this class of goods; 

 but the maud, from which the whole of this idea 

 came, well deserves a little digression, as Swift 

 says : 



THE SHEPHERD'S MAUD. The maud may 

 be said to be a long scarf, from 3 yards to 

 4 yards long, generally 1^ yard wide, and 

 sometimes 2 yards ; the most common colour 

 is the check of six threads of black and six 

 of white, known technically as a six-and-six 

 check, called the Lowland or Border check; 

 and, in the counties of Northumberland, Cum- 



