232 riELD AND FERN. 



lield tlie line and helped each other for a mile and a 

 half, near The Bellion in the Jedburgh country, 

 when nothing else could speak to it. But we had 

 gradually got round the side of the Eildons past the 

 three small ridges of gorses which so often hold a 

 fox, and wishing Will as satisfactory a season as his 

 first, we bent away to the right for Faldonside. 



