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The parties accordingly met, dined in peace, and spent part of the day in cheerfulness and friend- ship; when unfortunately a descendant of an Eng- lish bordering family, renowned in the history of the petty wars of those parts, reminded a Scotch gentleman sitting near him of some successful in- novations made by his own ancestors on the castle of this other gentleman's great grandsire. In a moment the mouldering ashes were re-kindled, the deadly feud was revived, and the spirit of in- sulted nationality spread itself from the Scotchman to all his countrymen. The feast of the Lapitha: once more displayed itself; all was riot and con- fusion; and few of the party returned home with- out having received some proofs imprinted on their heads or faces, that the inured of the borderers for each other had not been extinguished, but had only lain dormant lor a time. 1 believe no trial since this has been made for bringing such dis- social soirits together.

Shortly after leaving the Scotch precincts we passed another fortified mansion, called Kirk An- drew's-Castle, the old r< treat ol an English spoiler, belonging at present to Sir James Graham, whose more modern residence stands to the leit, in a park of great beauty, finely wooded, and declining gently to the banks of the Esk, which here roils

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