Often looked for, it was never found, till the accident of a search for fishing-tackle led him to discover it in the drawer of an old bureau in a lumber-garret.

This cabinet afterwards came into the possession of Mr.William Laidlaw, Scott's friend and amanuensis, and it is still, the Editor understands, in the hands of Miss Laidlaw.

The fishing-tackle, Miss Laidlaw tells the Editor (mainly red hackles, tied on hair, not gut), still occupies the drawer, except a few flies which were given, as relics, to the late Mr.
Thomas Tod Stoddart.

In 1813, then, volume i.

of "Waverley" was finished.
Then Scott undertook some articles for Constable, and laid the novel aside.