By Sharpe. See Lockhart, vol. ii., for unfinished ballad of 'The Reiver's Wedding'; also letter to Miss Seward, June 29, 1802, same vol. 'Gibbie wi' the Gowden Gairters.' By Sharpe. Sir Gilbert Elliot paying his addresses to Auld Wat of Harden's daughter. An (not The) Ettrick shepherd. The Paschal Lamb. From the High Altar at Dryburgh. Dead partridge. The above three wood-carvings are by Andrew Currie. Statuette of Sir Walter. From John Greenshields' seated figure, carved in freestone, now in the Advocates' Library--'Sic Sedebat.' ENTRANCE HALL. In this order of going round the Entrance Hall comes last--a spacious apartment, 40 feet by 20 feet, panelled to the height of 7 feet with dark oak from Dunfermline Abbey. The roof is of stucco-work in imitation of the wainscotting, and comprehends a series of arches with dependent points, modelled from Melrose Abbey. The effect of this room is grand and impressive. A sort of rich and red twilight, even at noonday, from the emblazoned 'Bellenden'[35] windows, pervades the place, which is literally laden with relics and trophies. The cornice displays a double line of escutcheons, with the heraldic bearings of the Scotts, Kers, Elliots, Douglases, Homes, Pringles, Maxwells, Johnstones, Chisholms, and other Border families, and the inscription in black letter: 'These be the Coat Armouris of ye Clannis and men of name quha keepit the Scottish Marches in ye days of auld. They were worthie in thair tyme and in thair defens God thaim defendid.' The arms of Scott's own ancestors occupy sixteen shields running along the centre of the roof, being the complete quarterings of a man of 'gentle blood.' On his father's side--running west--are the names of Scott, Haliburton, Campbell, M'Dougal, Murray, Scott (Dryhope), Ker, Riddel; and on his mother's side--running east--Rutherford, Swinton, Shaw, Ker, Ainslie. Three shields on this side are blanks,--Scott not being able to trace out his pedigree to the full length of his spaces,--and are painted over with blue clouds, and the motto, _Alta--Nox--Premit_ ('Oblivion has covered them'). The floor is a mosaic of black and white Hebridean marble. Of a singularly rich assortment of curiosities in the shape of cuirasses and suits of armour, helmets, shields, swords, lances, and other arms of all sorts and ages, flags, cannonballs, and numberless other articles from apparently every country under the sun, all of them interesting in their antiquity or associations, the following are some of the more notable: Suit of fluted armour. Early sixteenth century. Suit of polished steel tilting armour.