Highways and Byways in the Border

1

MS. in British Museum, by Claude Nau, Secretary to Queen Mary, 1575-1587.

2

Robertson's History of Scotland

3

Robertson.

4

The conjectural reading of Srhlopping, "Carved at the veal" though ingenious (for, as he observes, "the ancient Scots did not carve oat-meal") has no manuscript authority.

5

Rabbits.

6

This and the three preceding stanzas were among those that Sir Walter Scott most delighted to quote.

7

Tassels.

8

Makes ready to go.

9

Enclosed wood, or place.

10

Issue, or go forth.

11

Dressed.

12

Time: German stunde.

13

Since this was written, the Crook has reopened its doorsas an inn. But they are not any longer content with the homely word "inn"; the place asserts itself now in large letters as the Crook "Hotel."