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 tricts, but even in the interior of Scotland. I have been informed by persons of good authority in Lothian, that they recollected to have heard in their infancy different songs which celebrated the prowess of the men of Lothian in repulsing the Scotish borderers. It is probable, however, that these rude lays have been suffered to elude the grasp of tradition.

P. 166. v. 207. The properties of a good "Grehounde, "are thus stated by Lady Juliana Berners, in her "Booke of Huntying." "A grehound fhuld be hodded like a snake, and necked like a drake; foted like a catte, tailed lyke a ratte; syded like a breme, and chined like a beme. The first yere he must lerne to feed; the fecond yere to feeld him lede; the thirde he is felow lyke; the fourth yere he is none lyke; the fifth he is goode inough; the sixth yere he shall holde the plough; the seventh yere he wyll awayle, great bytches for to assayle; the eigth yere lyikladdel; the ninth yere cartsadel; and when he is comen to that yere, have him to the tannere; for the beste hounde that ever bytche had, at the ninth yere he is ful bad."

P. 167. v. 251. The superstitious belief of invisible hunting seems to have prevailed in every country where the barons, or feudal chiefs, were much addicted to this amusement. The traditions of Germany are full of it; and there are even some traces of it in France. The legendary history of Lesley of Monymusk, has preserved the following tradition concerning a mountain haunted by it, on the East coast of Scotland: