The driver, who might have answered to Washington Irving's description, pointed out to me Netherby Hall, the mansion of the Grahams, on "Cannobie lea," over which the young Lochinvar bore away his stolen bride.

We passed also Branksome Tower, the scene of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," and reached Selkirk in the early evening.

The next day I spent at Abbotsford.

The Great Magician had been dead only ten years, and his family still occupied the house with some of his old employees who figure in Lockhart's biography.

I sat in the great arm-chair where Sir Walter Scott wrote many of his novels, and looked out of the window of his bedchamber, through which came the rippling murmurs of the Tweed, that consoled his dying hours.