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LOCEEEBf f© SiOeiiLaW. 



" Ca' the yowes to the knowes, 

 Ca' them \yhere the heather gTOws, 

 Ca' them where the burnie rows — 

 My bonnie dearie ! 



" Hark the mavis' evening sang 

 Sounding Cluden's woods amang ! 

 Then a faulding let us gang, 

 ■ My 'bonnie deai-ie." 



BUKXS. 



The Cliuix-hyard of Old Drumgre — Lockerby Lamb Fair — Breedina; in. 

 Dumfriesshire — Sale of the Moodlaw Tups at Beattock — Ericstane — 

 The Shaw — Eskdale Muir — A Day at Moodlaw — Annals of the 

 Moodlaw Hock. 



UR remembrances of Annandale are very mixed 

 ones, and drawn from visits at two or three 

 different periods of the year. We had the finest 

 view of it from the hill above " Hebbie Renwick's^' 

 where there is a shepherd's burial-ground in con- 

 nection with the churchyard of old Dumgre. " The 

 graves are the graves of our ain folk'^ in that lofty 

 solitude, and the sheep browse over them at will ; 

 and when you have scraped away the moss from one 

 deep sunken stone, you read the proud epitaph, 

 ^^ Here lys the corps of ane honest man.'' "Oh ! what 

 a beautiful clearing it would make,^^ said an Austra - 



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