place overgrown with brambles; from the crackling noise they make as one
passes over them.


_Love swells like the Solway_. For a scene in which the rapid advance
of the Solway tide is described, see the beginning of Scott's novel of
'Redgauntlet.'


_Galliard_. A gay rollicker. Used also in Chaucer.


_Scaur_. A rough, broken ground. The same word as scar.]




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LEARNING TO RIDE.


Some time before my father had bought a small Shetland pony for us,
Moggy by name, upon which we were to complete our own education in
riding, we had already mastered the rudiments under the care of our
grandfather's coachman. He had been in our family thirty years, and we
were as fond of him as if he had been a relation. He had taught us to