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and other crack Scottish " green collars/' dead and 

 gone, are all stealing away, and on which the Duke 

 of Buccleuch and Earl Wemyss can look and renew 

 their youth. The Inlliard room is quite a Landseer 

 gallery. Its prints are '^ artist's proofs" in the very 

 highest sense of the phrase, as Sir Edwin had been 

 over them with his chalks. It was delightful to trace 

 his sense of Avhat points the engraver's art had been 

 unable to reach ; how vigorously he dashed his broad 

 touches into '^A Distinguished Member of the 

 Humane Society/' the reaper lass's kerchief, and 07ie 

 of the interiors with the baby and the keery ; how he 

 stayed his hand from the hound and terrier troop in 

 the " Otter Spearing /' and just played with the 

 ripples and the waterfall in the Otters' Fishing; 

 how reverently he touched the pall in the " Shep- 

 herd's Mourner/' and how he just glazed the eye of 

 the dead standard-bearer and his horse in " War/' 

 and faintly heightened the smouldering of the 

 shell. 



We had no time to go round by Yarrow, and we 

 cared less to see it in its wintry garb. Williamson 

 had told us that he " knew nae mair" about the 

 country we were going through than he did of Nova 

 Zembla. W^e did Avell enough as long as we held 

 on past Newark's Tower, over whose ruined gables 

 a hawk was hovering; but when we gave up all 

 thoughts of Yarrow and " still St. Mary's Loch," 

 and struck to the right up a bridle road, among 

 deeply-frozen ruts over Minchmoor to Peebles, it was 



