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yet still lives, and who preached forgiveness instead of 

 revenge. The saint disappears, and for centuries his strange 

 gospel is as good as forgotten. More great campaigns and 

 bloody battles ond in a new union ; priests return with their 

 softening message, and shielings are planted amidst the 

 forest. A church rears its modest cross, and the place is 

 called Shielskirk. Soon a castle crowns the brow of the 

 hill, and its chief moves about with his knights and 

 wai-riors. The hunter's cheery notes echo from hill to hill, 

 and " merry it is in the good greenwood." 



Most wonderful change of all is the chant of pious monks, 

 who have come from far-oif lands at Prince David's call, 

 to build his new monastery. David himself, one sees, going 

 in and out amongst his people, dispensing justice and 

 encouraging industry. Kings, his descendants, come and go 

 — William the Lion with all his pomp and circumstance; 

 Alexander, who rules the land in peace and plenty. Suddenly 

 all is changed to bloodshed and rapine, as Edward leads his 

 host over the galled and hari-ied land. One has glimpses of 

 Wallace marching up the valley to defy the usurper from 

 his trench on the Tweed and Yarrow watershed. Later on, 

 the shouts of those who hail him Governor of Scotland are 

 w^afted from St. Mary's Chapel across the river. King 

 Kdward pauses in his march northwards, and 7(M)0 of his 

 men get their meagre pay at Selkirk Castle. But after 

 Bannockburn comes Douglas, new lord of the Forest, and 

 sweeps it clear of the hated English. Again, the southron 

 tide returns, to ebb and flow often and often before it tinally 

 recedes. Quite within view a solemn procession paces down 

 the river bank, carrying the murdered corpse of the Knight 

 of Chivalry. 



Very different the progress of the Second James as, 

 attended by courtiers and lackej^s, he canters up to his 

 new castle of Newark, bent partly on royal business, 

 but mostly on royal sport. Deeds of blood, not always in 

 fair and open conflict, there are and to spare — the death of 

 Philiphaugh by Scott of Haining's arrow amongst them. 

 One can hear the rough music and shouts of the Selkirk 



