'Bosom'd in woods where mighty rivers run, Kelso's fair vale expands before the sun; Its rising downs in vernal beauty swell, And fringed with hazel winds each flowery dell; Green-spangled plains to dimpling lawns succeed, And Tempé rises on the banks of Tweed. Blue o'er the river Kelso's shadow lies, And copse clad isles amid the waters rise.' There is one place which should not be overlooked. To him who writes it is the sweetest and the best, entwined with memories lasting as life itself. With the story of Thomas of Ercildoune he first heard that of Sir Walter Scott. Under the weird shadow of the Rhymer's Tower, other names fell upon his ear--Ashestiel, Abbotsford, 'Marmion,' 'Waverley.' Much has been since then! But home and the days of youth are never forgotten. One hears still in memory the music of the Leader. Across the years comes there again and again a sweet old-time fragrance of yellow broom from Cowdenknowes. INDEX Abbotsford, 3, 114 Armoury, 191 Dining-room, 203 Drawing-room, 188 Entrance Hall, 199 Family, 90 Ferry, 168 Hunt, 57 Library, 181 'Noctes,' 79 'Notanda,' 82 Pronunciation of, 3 Study, 176 the Treasures of, 167 Abbotstown, 60 Adolphus, John Leycester, 93 Ale Water, 135 Allan, Sir William, 53 Allerly, 102 Ambrose, 79 American, ubiquitous, 67 Apsley House, 183 Ariosto, 91 Ashestiel, 13, 112, 219 Atkinson, 36 Baillie, Joanna, 29, 81 Baird, Rev. Principal, 121 Ballantyne, 52, 80 James, 24, 196 John, 108, 135 Ballingry, 149 Balliol, 128 Bemersyde, 18, 121, 136 Hill, 215 Berwick, 16 Biggar, 112 Blore, Edward, 36 'Blucher,' the, 52 Boswell, 81, 125 Bowden Moor, 135 Braes of Yarrow, 87, 88 Brewster, Sir David, 102, 214 'Bride of Lammermoor,' 108 British Peerage, 68 Broadmeadows, 19 Broomielees, 60, 182 Brown, Dr. John, 171 Bruce, Heart of, 126 Bullock, George, 36 Burne the Violer, 137 Burnfoot, 42 Burns, Captain, 143 Robert, 12, 218 Burritt, Elihu, 215 Byron, Lady, 89 Lord, 13, 30, 81, 89 Cadell, the publisher, 52, 113, 115, 119, 120, 167 Calais, 12 Cambusnethan, 125 'Camp,' 72 Campbell, 80 Tom, 83 Cardross, 128 Carlyle, 77, 137, 148, 171 Carpenter, Charles, 26 Charlotte, 50 Carruthers, Robert, 82 Carterhaugh, 135 Cartleyhole, 21 'Castle Dangerous,' 112, 113 Castle Street, 33, 105, 130 Catrail, 24 Cauldshiels, 93, 106, 114 Loch, 41 Chambers, Robert, 171 Chantrey Bust, 183 Charge Law, 5 Chiefswood, 42, 139, 140 days, 141 Clarty Hole, 22 Cleghorn, 112, 127 Cock-a-Pistol, 5 Cockburn, Alison, 6 Lord, 102 Colmslie, 214 Constable, 80 Contin, 66 'Count Robert of Paris,' 111, 113 Court Clerkship, 49 Cowdenknowes, 18, 87, 136, 219 Crabbe, 80 Crash, the, 67 Croker, 114, 120 Cross of Edinburgh, 172