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Rh noise of two, falling out of their dirty boxes in the wall of the room where they were sitting; and were told, those were the nests in which they were to sleep! The company were, a gentleman, and two ladies.

I got from Selkirk a very good pair of horses, and just such another honest-hearted, good-humoured Scot, as he who drove me from Langholm to Hawick. Before I left the inn door, I told the driver I had nearly been overturned into a ditch, from the Hawick boy's carelessness, in coming down one of the hills; I therefore hoped his horses were steady. "Ay; and as gude horses as ere gang, my Lady: they wad trot down a ridge of a house, and nae fa'." Indeed I never was better carried; although the stage between Selkirk and Bank House be extremely hilly and fatiguing for horses. The descent from the town of Selkirk, is something similar to the ridge of a house, very narrow, and paved; notwithstanding, the horses actually did trot briskly down it, without the wheel of my heavy carriage being dragged. The bridge over the Ettrick and Yarrow River united, is at the foot of the descent; and the road winds sweetly round its banks, for a mile or two; then leaves it rolling