275).

The occasion gave great pleasure to Scott, on account of the patriotism and courage displayed by all classes.

"Me no muckle to fight for ?" says Edie.

"Isna there the country to fight for, and the burns I gang dandering beside, and the hearths o' the gudewives that gie me my bit bread, and the bits o' weans that come toddling to play wi' me when I come about a landward town ?" Edie had fought at Fontenoy, and was of the old school.

Scott would have been less pleased with a recruit from St.Boswells, on the Tweed.