The great business of Hawick is the manufacture of a woollen fabric called _Tweeds_.

It came to this name in a singular way.

The clerk of the factory made out an invoice of the first lot to a London house under the name of _Twilled_ goods.

The London man read it _Tweeds_, instead of Twilled, and ever since they have gone by that title.

As Sir Walter Scott was at that time making the name "Tweed" illustrious, the mistake was a very lucrative one to the manufacturers of the article.