"Refreshments were distributed to the players by the Duke of Buccleuch's domestics, in a booth erected for the purpose; and no persons were allowed to sell ale or spirits on the field. "In the evening there was a dance at the Duke's hunting-seat at Bowhill, attended by the nobility and gentry who had witnessed the sport of the day; and the fascination of Gow's violin and band detained them in the dancing-room till the dawn of the winter morning." The newspaper then gives the songs above alluded to--namely, Scott's Lifting of the Banner:-- "From the brown crest of Newark its summons extending, Our signal is waving in smoke and in flame, And each Forester blithe, from his mountain descending, Bounds light o'er the heather to join in the game; Then up with the Banner! let forest winds fan her! She has blazed over Ettrick eight ages and more; In sport we'll attend her, in battle defend her, With heart and with hand, like our Fathers before," etc.[26] [Footnote 26: See _Poetical Works_ (Ed. 1834), vol. xi. p. 312 [Cambridge Ed. p. 424].] --and that excellent ditty by Hogg, entitled The Ettrick {p.087} Garland, to the Ancient Banner of the House of Buccleuch:-- "And hast thou here, like hermit gray, Thy mystic characters unroll'd, O'er peaceful revellers to play, Thou emblem of the days of old? All hail! memorial of the brave, The liegeman's pride, the Border's awe! May thy gray pennon never wave On sterner field than Carterhaugh!" etc.