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and, fatigued with her double duty, had sat down on the wine-cooler, 

 with the broom in one hand and the bairn in the other. At length, after 

 some conference with Charles Sharpe, I have hit on a plan, which, I 

 think, will look very well if tolerably executed, namely to have the lady 

 seated in due form on the top of the lid (which will look handsome and 

 will be well taken), and to have a thistle wreathed around the sarco- 

 phagus and rising above her head, and from the top of the thistle shall 

 proceed the birse. I will bring a drawing with me, and they shall get the 

 cup ready in the meantime. I hope to be at Abbotsford on Monday 

 night, to stay for a week." 



In a postscript he adds : — " Your Grace will be so good as understand 

 that the thistle — the top of which is garnished with the bristle — is en- 

 tirely detached in working from the figure, and slips into a socket. The 

 following lines are humbly suggested for a motto, being taken from an 

 ancient Scottish canzonetta, unless the Yarrow committee can find any 

 better : — 



' The souter gae the sow a kiss ; 



Grumph I quo' the sow, it's a' for my birse.'" 



Mr James B. Brown, Thornfield, Selkirk, exhibited the 

 "Flodden Flag;" and an old volume of the Weavers' Incor- 

 poration of the Town. The story of the Flag is told by Mr 

 Campbell Swinton at p. 15 of the volume of the Proceedings 

 already referred to ; as well as that of another object exhibited, 

 an Andrew Ferrara sword, now in the possession of Mr W. H. 

 Brydone, manufacturer, Selkirk, which is said to have been 

 borne by an ancestor of Mr Brydone in the disastrous Battle of 

 Flodden. 



Mr T. Oraig-Brown exhibited the Deacon's Staff of the Cor- 

 poration of Shoemakers, and the curious old Halberd carried in 

 former days in holiday processions, and which bears the inscrip- 

 tion, ''God bless the King and the gentil treed" ; and also a vol- 

 ume of the Minutes of the Corporation, — the " Sutors of Selkirk." 



Dr. Anderson shewed an interesting relic, — a small volume 

 containing a metrical version of the Psalms, with Watts' Hymns 

 appended, which had belonged to his uncle. Dr. Alex. Anderson, 

 who accompanied Mungo Park in his last and fatal expedition to 

 Africa. Anderson was cut off by fever before Park reached the 

 Niger, but the little volume had been preserved by Park. On 

 the traveller's death it fell into the hands of the natives^ one of 

 whom was wearing it as an amulet, when Eichard Lander re- 

 covered it, and brought it back to England. 



From the Haining Mr Pattison sent a pair of Horns of the Eed 

 Deer, which had been found in Linton Moss, Eoxburghshire ; 

 and a Skull of Bosprimigenius. In length each Deer Horn is 3 feet 

 8 inches, and carries 7 points, one of them forked. The brow- 

 antler is 15 inches in length ; the girth immediately above the 



