SANDY'S STORY 



ET me at once undeceive 

 you upon one point. 

 It is not the moun- 

 tains there, but the 

 hounds, that are hard 

 to be rode over, and 

 that on account of the 

 scent. We have, how- 

 ever, noble lords and 

 others who can and do 

 keep with the hounds, except on the steepest parts 

 of the Cheviots. In the next place, let me pray 

 of you not to believe the slanderers who say that 

 we are so unmercifully slaughtered. No, my friends, 

 it! is not so. We have patrons as good as, if not 

 better, than you have in the South. One gentle- 

 man alone has lately raised, at his o^\ti expense, for 

 our sole use, a series of coverts, which was the only 

 thing required, as both sides of Tweed, Berwickshire, 



