Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " The sternest heart its wish might bound, On earth to dwell delighted here : Nor could on earth a spot be found To Nature and to me so dear." Not far from the Cottage stands the decayed mansion of Ferniolee. Here Miss Alison Rutherford, afterwards Mrs Cockburn, resided, and wrote the version of the " Flowers of the Forest," beginning— " I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling." Yair Bridge—of which a view is prefixed to the Song— spans the Tweed in close proximity to the " Nest." Sir AY. Scott, in his review of " Salmonia," says, that in the memory of man as many as 99 salmon (wo mark the exact number) were taken in one day at Yair Bridge; and no one will think of accusing the great romancer of telling a fiction. Would that the same tale could bo told now : Sic transit, fec. ! One could have wished, however, that Sir Walter had told by what means so many fish were taken. Was it with the leister, by torchlight, or sunlight 1 It must have been in the " Trows " or " Elm-Weil " that this exploit was performed. Precedence is given to this Song simply because it is the first that was contributed, and the first that was sung at the Annual Festive Meetings of the Club. It has the merit, if it has no other, of having inspired, or at least suggested, all the rest, save one, namely, "The Saumon." And it may also bo safely said, that had this Song not been written, the illustrations which adorn the volume would not have been drawn or engraved. chapter{Section 4 ®Ijc Call. TuNE—" Jenny Jones." P, up, and away, for the winter is fled, With Basket and Rod let each Angler be seen; Now gaily the streamlet glides over its bed, And clad are its banks in the brightest of green. The sweet flowers are springing on ilk sunny spot, The wee birds are singing on ilk b...