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a curious Northumbrian legend^ which very probably had its 

 origin in the apparent remains of extensive buildings on the 

 castle hill. The legend is briefly told thus : — 



A Lord of Callaly in the days of yore commenced erecting 

 a castle on this hill ; his lady preferred a low sheltered situa- 

 tion in the vale. She remonstrated ; but her lord was wilful, 

 and the building continued to progress. What she could not 

 attain by persuasion she sought to achieve by stratagem, and 

 availed herself of the superstitious opinions and feelings of the 

 age. One of her servants who was devoted to her interests, 

 entered into her scheme ; he was dressed up like a boar, and 

 nightly he ascended the hill and pulled down all that had 

 been built during the day. It was soon whispered that the 

 spiritual powers were opposed to the erection of a castle on 

 the hill ; the lord himself became alarmed, and he sent some 

 of his retainers to watch the building during the night, and 

 discover the cause of the destruction. Under the influence 

 of the superstitions of the times, these retainers magnified 

 appearances, and when the boar issued from the wood and 

 commenced overthroAving the work of the day, they beheld 

 a monstrous animal of enormous power. Their terror Avas 

 complete, when the boar standing in the overturned stones 

 cried out in a loud voice — 



Callaly Castle built on the height, 

 Up in the day and down in the night ; 

 Builded down in the Shepherd's Shaw, 

 It shall stand for aye and never fa'. 



They immediately fled and informed the lord of the super- 

 natural visitation ; and regarding the rhymes as an expression 

 of the will of heaven, he abandoned the work, and in accord- 

 ance with the wish of his lady built his castle low down in 

 the vale, where the modern mansion noAV stands. 



Passing by Callaly the party proceeded to Eslington House, 

 where they were received by Captain Liddell and Seymour 

 Liddell, Esq., the sons of Lord RavensAvorth, Avho had kindly 

 ordered luncheon for the party. Much pleasure Avas felt in 

 viewing the fine paintings belonging to his lordship, and in 



