It has disappeared as utterly as the prison or the Luckenbooths; and for those ignorant of its history, I know only one token that remains.

In the Parliament Close, trodden daily underfoot by advocates, two letters and a date mark the resting-place of the man who made Scotland over again in his own image, the indefatigable, undissuadable John Knox.

He sleeps within call of the church that so often echoed to his preaching.
Hard by the reformer, a bandy-legged and garlanded Charles Second, made of lead, bestrides a tun-bellied charger.

The King has his backed turned, and, as you look, seems to be trotting clumsily away from such a dangerous neighbour.

Often, for hours together, these two will be alone in the Close, for it lies out of the way of all but legal traffic.