Amongst others, as we have seen, came the hatter who found only three hats in the kirk.

His lordship was much taken up with his hotel or inn, and for which he provided a large volume for receiving the written contributions of travellers who frequented it.

It was the landlady's business to present this volume to the guests, and ask them to write in it during the evenings whatever occurred to their memory or their imagination.

In the mornings it was a favourite amusement of Lord Gardenstone to look it over.

I recollect Sir Walter Scott being much taken with this contrivance, and his asking me about it at Abbotsford.