The patron was one of those well-bred, commonplace gentlemen with which England is overrun. He had great deference2 for Scott, and endeavored to acquit3 himself learnedly in his company, aiming continually at abstract disquisitions, for which Scott had little relish4. The conversation of the latter, as usual, was studded with anecdotes6 and stories, some of them of great pith and humor; the well-bred gentleman was either too dull to feel their point, or too decorous to indulge in hearty7 merriment; the honest parson, on the contrary, who was not too refined to be happy, laughed loud and long at every joke, and enjoyed them with the zest8 of a man who has more merriment in his heart than coin in his pocket.
After they were gone, some comments were made upon their different deportments. Scott spoke9 very respectfully of the good breeding and measured manners of the man of wealth, but with a kindlier feeling of the honest parson, and the homely10 but hearty enjoyment11 with which he relished12 every pleasantry. "I doubt," said he, "whether the parson's lot in life is not the best; if he cannot command as many of the good things of this world by his own purse as his patron can, he beats him all hollow in his enjoyment of them when set before him by others. Upon the whole," added he, "I rather think I prefer the honest parson's good humor to his patron's good breeding; I have a great regard for a hearty laugher."
He went on to speak of the great influx13 of English travellers which of late years had inundated14 Scotland; and doubted whether they had not injured the old-fashioned Scottish character. "Formerly15 they came here occasionally as sportsmen," said he, "to shoot moor16 game, without any idea of looking at scenery; and they moved about the country in hardy17 simple style, coping with the country people in their own way; but now they come rolling about in their equipages, to see ruins, and spend money, and their lavish19 extravagance has played the vengeance20 with the common people. It has made them rapacious21 in their dealings with strangers, greedy after money, and extortionate in their demands for the most trivial services. Formerly," continued he, "the poorer classes of our people were, comparatively, disinterested22; they offered their services gratuitously23, in promoting the amusement, or aiding the curiosity of strangers, and were gratified by the smallest compensation; but now they make a trade of showing rocks and ruins, and are as greedy as Italian cicerones. They look upon the English as so many walking money-bags; the more they are shaken and poked26, the more they will leave behind them."
I told him that he had a great deal to answer for on that head, since it was the romantic associations he had thrown by his writings over so many out-of-the-way places in Scotland, that had brought in the influx of curious travellers.
Scott laughed, and said he believed I might be in some measure in the right, as he recollected28 a circumstance in point. Being one time at Glenross, an old woman who kept a small inn, which had but little custom, was uncommonly30 officious in her attendance upon him, and absolutely incommoded him with her civilities. The secret at length came out. As he was about to depart, she addressed him with many curtsies, and said she understood he was the gentleman that had written a bonnie book about Loch Katrine. She begged him to write a little about their lake also, for she understood his book had done the inn at Loch Katrine a muckle deal of good.
On the following day I made an excursion with Scott and the young ladies to Dryburgh Abbey. We went in an open carriage, drawn31 by two sleek32 old black horses, for which Scott seemed to have an affection, as he had for every dumb animal that belonged to him. Our road lay through a variety of scenes, rich in poetical33 and historical associations, about most of which Scott had something to relate. In one part of the drive, he pointed35 to an old border keep, or fortress36, on the summit of a naked hill, several miles off, which he called Smallholm Tower, and a rocky knoll37 on which it stood, the "Sandy Knowe crags." It was a place, he said, peculiarly dear to him, from the recollections of childhood. His father had lived there in the old Smallholm Grange, or farm-house; and he had been sent there, when but two years old, on account of his lameness39, that he might have the benefit of the pure air of the hills, and be under the care of his grandmother and aunts. In the introduction of one of the cantos of Marmion, he has depicted40 his grandfather, and the fireside of the farm-house; and has given an amusing picture of himself in his boyish years:
"Still with vain fondness could I trace
Anew each kind familiar face,
That brightened at our evening fire;
From the thatched mansion's gray-haired sire,
Wise without learning plain and good,
And sprung of Scotland's gentler blood;
Whose eye in age, quick, clear and keen.
Showed what in youth its glance had been;
Whose doom41 discording42 neighbors sought,
Content with equity43 unbought;
To him the venerable priest,
Our frequent and familiar guest,
Whose life and manners well could paint
Alike the student and the saint;
Alas44! whose speech too oft I broke
With gambol45 rude and timeless joke;
For I was wayward, bold, and wild,
A self-willed imp18, a grandame's child;
But half a plague, and half a jest,
Was still endured, beloved, carest."
It was, he said, during his residence at Smallholm crags that he first imbibed47 his passion for legendary48 tales, border traditions, and old national songs and ballads49. His grandmother and aunts were well versed51 in that kind of lore52, so current in Scottish country life. They used to recount them in long, gloomy winter days, and about the ingle nook at night, in conclave53 with their gossip visitors; and little Walter would sit and listen with greedy ear; thus taking into his infant mind the seeds of many a splendid fiction.
There was an old shepherd, he said, in the service of the family, who used to sit under the sunny wall, and tell marvellous stories, and recite old time ballads, as he knitted stockings. Scott used to be wheeled out in his chair, in fine weather, and would sit beside the old man, and listen to him for hours.
The situation of Sandy Knowe was favorable both for storyteller and listener. It commanded a wide view over all the border country, with its feudal54 towers, its haunted glens, and wizard streams. As the old shepherd told his tales, he could point out the very scene of action. Thus, before Scott could walk, he was made familiar with the scenes of his future stories; they were all seen as through a magic medium, and took that tinge56 of romance, which they ever after retained in his imagination. From the height of Sandy Knowe, he may be said to have had the first look-out upon the promised land of his future glory.
On referring to Scott's works, I find many of the circumstances related in this conversation, about the old tower, and the boyish scenes connected with it, recorded in the introduction to Marmion, already cited. This was frequently the case with Scott; incidents and feelings that had appeared in his writings, were apt to be mingled57 up in his conversation, for they had been taken from what he had witnessed and felt in real life, and were connected with those scenes among which he lived, and moved, and had his being. I make no scruple59 at quoting the passage relative to the tower, though it repeats much of the foregone imagery, and with vastly superior effect:
Thus, while I ape the measure wild
Of tales that charmed me yet a child,
Rude though they be, still with the chime
Return the thoughts of early time;
And feelings roused in life's first day,
Glow in the line, and prompt the lay.
Then rise those crags, that mountain tower.
Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour,
Though no broad river swept along
To claim perchance heroic song;
Though sighed no groves60 in summer gale61
To prompt of love a softer tale;
Though scarce a puny62 streamlet's speed
Claimed homage63 from a shepherd's reed;
Yet was poetic34 impulse given,
By the green hill and clear blue heaven.
It was a barren scene, and wild,
Where naked cliffs were rudely piled;
But ever and anon between
Lay velvet64 tufts of loveliest green;
And well the lonely infant knew
Recesses65 where the wall-flower grew,
And honey-suckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruined wall.
I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade
The sun in all his round surveyed;
And still I thought that shattered tower
The mightiest66 work of human power;
And marvell'd as the aged67 hind27
With some strange tale bewitched my mind,
Of forayers, who, with headlong force,
Down from that strength had spurred their horse,
Their southern rapine to renew,
Far in the distant Cheviot's blue,
And, home returning, filled the hall
With revel68, wassail-rout, and brawl—
Methought that still, with tramp and clang
The gate-way's broken arches rang;
Methought grim features, seamed with scars,
Glared through the window's rusty69 bars.
And ever by the winter hearth70,
Old tales I heard of woe71 or mirth,
Of lovers' slights, of ladies' charms,
Of witches' spells, of warriors72' arms;
Of patriot73 battles, won of old,
By Wallace wight and Bruce the bold;
Of later fields of feud55 and fight,
When pouring from the Highland74 height,
The Scottish clans75, in headlong sway,
Had swept the scarlet76 ranks away.
While stretched at length upon the floor,
Again I fought each combat o'er.
Pebbles77 and shells, in order laid,
The mimic78 ranks of war displayed;
And onward79 still the Scottish Lion bore,
And still the scattered80 Southron fled before."
Scott eyed the distant height of Sandy Knowe with an earnest gaze as we rode along, and said he had often thought of buying the place, repairing the old tower, and making it his residence. He has in some measure, however, paid off his early debt of gratitude81, in clothing it with poetic and romantic associations, by his tale of "The Eve of St. John." It is to be hoped that those who actually possess so interesting a monument of Scott's early days, will preserve it from further dilapidation82.
Not far from Sandy Knowe, Scott pointed out another old border hold, standing83 on the summit of a hill, which had been a kind of enchanted84 castle to him in his boyhood. It was the tower of Bemerside, the baronial residence of the Haigs, or De Hagas, one of the oldest families of the border. "There had seemed to him," he said, "almost a wizard spell hanging over it, in consequence of a prophecy of Thomas the Rhymer, in which, in his young days, he most potently85 believed:"
"Betide, betide, whate'er betide,
Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside."
Scott added some particulars which showed that, in the present instance, the venerable Thomas had not proved a false prophet, for it was a noted86 fact that, amid all the changes and chances of the border; through all the feuds87, and forays, and sackings, and burnings, which had reduced most of the castles to ruins, and the proud families that once possessed88 them to poverty, the tower of Bemerside still remained unscathed, and was still the stronghold of the ancient family of Haig.
Prophecies, however, often insure their own fulfilment. It is very probable that the prediction of Thomas the Rhymer has linked the Haigs to their tower, as their rock of safety, and has induced them to cling to it almost superstitiously89, through hardships and inconveniences that would, otherwise, have caused its abandonment.
I afterwards saw, at Dryburgh Abbey, the burying place of this predestinated and tenacious91 family, the inscription92 of which showed the value they set upon their antiquity93:
Locus94 Sepultura, Antiquessima Familia De Haga De Bemerside.
In reverting95 to the days of his childhood, Scott observed that the lameness which had disabled him in infancy96 gradually decreased; he soon acquired strength in his limbs, and though he always limped, he became, even in boyhood, a great walker. He used frequently to stroll from home and wander about the country for days together, picking up all kinds of local gossip, and observing popular scenes and characters. His father used to be vexed97 with him for this wandering propensity98, and, shaking his head, would say he fancied the boy would make nothing but a peddler. As he grew older he became a keen sportsman, and passed much of his time hunting and shooting. His field sports led him into the most wild and unfrequented parts of the country, and in this way he picked up much of that local knowledge which he has since evinced in his writings.
His first visit to Loch Katrine, he says, was in his boyish days, on a shooting excursion. The island, which he has made the romantic residence of the "Lady of the Lake," was then garrisoned99 by an old man and his wife. Their house was vacant; they had put the key under the door, and were absent fishing. It was at that time a peaceful residence, but became afterward90 a resort of smugglers, until they were ferreted out.
In after years, when Scott began to turn this local knowledge to literary account, he revisited many of those scenes of his early ramblings, and endeavored to secure the fugitive100 remains101 of the traditions and songs that had charmed his boyhood. When collecting materials for his "Border Minstrelsy," he used, he said, to go from cottage to cottage, and make the old wives repeat all they knew, if but two lines; and by putting these scraps102 together, he retrieved103 many a fine characteristic old ballad50 or tradition from oblivion.
I regret to say that I can scarce recollect29 anything of our visit to Dryburgh Abbey. It is on the estate of the Earl of Buchan. The religious edifice104 is a mere105 ruin, rich in Gothic antiquities106, but especially interesting to Scott, from containing the family vault107, and the tombs and monuments of his ancestors. He appeared to feel much chagrin108 at their being in the possession, and subject to the intermeddlings of the Earl, who was represented as a nobleman of an eccentric character. The latter, however, set great value on these sepulchral109 relics110, and had expressed a lively anticipation112 of one day or other having the honor of burying Scott, and adding his monument to the collection, which he intended should be worthy113 of the "mighty114 minstrel of the north"—a prospective115 compliment which was by no means relished by the object of it. One of my pleasant rambles116 with Scott, about the neighborhood of Abbotsford, was taken in company with Mr. William Laidlaw, the steward118 of his estate. This was a gentleman for whom Scott entertained a particular value. He had been born to a competency, had been well educated, his mind was richly stored with varied119 information, and he was a man of sterling120 moral worth. Having been reduced by misfortune, Scott had got him to take charge of his estate. He lived at a small farm on the hillside above Abbotsford, and was treated by Scott as a cherished and confidential121 friend, rather than a dependent.
As the day was showery, Scott was attended by one of his retainers, named Tommie Purdie, who carried his plaid, and who deserves especial mention. Sophia Scott used to call him her father's grand vizier, and she gave a playful account one evening, as she was hanging on her father's arm, of the consultations122 which he and Tommie used to have about matters relative to farming. Purdie was tenacious of his opinions, and he and Scott would have long disputes in front of the house, as to something that was to be done on the estate, until the latter, fairly tired out, would abandon the ground and the argument, exclaiming, "Well, well, Tom, have it your own way."
After a time, however, Purdie would present himself at the door of the parlor123, and observe, "I ha' been thinking over the matter, and upon the whole, I think I'll take your honor's advice."
Scott laughed heartily124 when this anecdote5 was told of him. "It was with him and Tom," he said, "as it was with an old laird and a pet servant, whom he had indulged until he was positive beyond all endurance." "This won't do!" cried the old laird, in a passion, "we can't live together any longer—we must part." "An' where the deil does your honor mean to go?" replied the other.
I would, moreover, observe of Tom Purdie, that he was a firm believer in ghosts, and warlocks, and all kinds of old wives' fable125. He was a religious man, too, mingling126 a little degree of Scottish pride in his devotion; for though his salary was but twenty pounds a year, he had managed to afford seven pounds for a family Bible. It is true, he had one hundred pounds clear of the world, and was looked up to by his comrades as a man of property.
In the course of our morning's walk, we stopped at a small house belonging to one of the laborers127 on the estate. The object of Scott's visit was to inspect a relic111 which had been digged up in a Roman camp, and which, if I recollect right, he pronounced to have been a tongs128. It was produced by the cottager's wife, a ruddy, healthy-looking dame46, whom Scott addressed by the name of Ailie. As he stood regarding the relic, turning it round and round, and making comments upon it, half grave, half comic, with the cottage group around him, all joining occasionally in the colloquy129, the inimitable character of Monkbarns was again brought to mind, and I seemed to see before me that prince of antiquarians and humorists holding forth130 to his unlearned and unbelieving neighbors.
Whenever Scott touched, in this way, upon local antiquities, and in all his familiar conversations about local traditions and superstitions131, there was always a sly and quiet humor running at the bottom of his discourse132, and playing about his countenance133, as if he sported with the subject. It seemed to me as if he distrusted his own enthusiasm, and was disposed to droll134 upon his own humors and peculiarities135, yet, at the same time, a poetic gleam in his eye would show that he really took a strong relish and interest in them. "It was a pity," he said, "that antiquarians were generally so dry, for the subjects they handled were rich in historical and poetical recollections, in picturesque136 details, in quaint137 and heroic characteristics, and in all kinds of curious and obsolete138 ceremonials. They are always groping among the rarest materials for poetry, but they have no idea of turning them to poetic use. Now every fragment from old times has, in some degree, its story with it, or gives an inkling of something characteristic of the circumstances and manners of its day, and so sets the imagination at work."
For my own part I never met with antiquarian so delightful139, either in his writings or his conversation; and the quiet sub-acid humor that was prone140 to mingle58 in his disquisitions, gave them, to me, a peculiar38 and an exquisite141 flavor. But he seemed, in fact, to undervalue everything that concerned himself. The play of his genius was so easy that he was unconscious of its mighty power, and made light of those sports of intellect that shamed the efforts and labors142 of other minds.
Our ramble117 this morning took us again up the Rhymer's Glen, and by Huntley Bank, and Huntley Wood, and the silver waterfall overhung with weeping birches and mountain ashes, those delicate and beautiful trees which grace the green shaws and burnsides of Scotland. The heather, too, that closely woven robe of Scottish landscape which covers the nakedness of its hills and mountains, tinted143 the neighborhood with soft and rich colors. As we ascended144 the glen, the prospects145 opened upon us; Melrose, with its towers and pinnacles146, lay below; beyond were the Eildon hills, the Cowden Knowes, the Tweed, the Galla Water, and all the storied vicinity; the whole landscape varied by gleams of sunshine and driving showers.
Scott, as usual, took the lead, limping along with great activity, and in joyous147 mood, giving scraps of border rhymes and border stories; two or three times in the course of our walk there were drizzling148 showers, which I supposed would put an end to our ramble, but my companions trudged149 on as unconcernedly as if it had been fine weather.
At length, I asked whether we had not better seek some shelter. "True," said Scott, "I did not recollect that you were not accustomed to our Scottish mists. This is a lachrymose150 climate, evermore showering. We, however, are children of the mist, and must not mind a little whimpering of the clouds any more than a man must mind the weeping of an hysterical151 wife. As you are not accustomed to be wet through, as a matter of course, in a morning's walk, we will bide152 a bit under the lee of this bank until the shower is over." Taking his seat under shelter of a thicket153, he called to his man George for his tartan, then turning to me, "Come," said he, "come under my plaidy, as the old song goes;" so, making me nestle down beside him, he wrapped a part of the plaid round me, and took me, as he said, under his wing. While we were thus nestled together, he pointed to a hole in the opposite bank of the glen. That, he said, was the hole of an old gray badger154, who was doubtless snugly155 housed in this bad weather. Sometimes he saw him at the entrance of his hole, like a hermit156 at the door of his cell, telling his beads157, or reading a homily. He had a great respect for the venerable anchorite, and would not suffer him to be disturbed. He was a kind of successor to Thomas the Rhymer, and perhaps might be Thomas himself returned from fairy land, but still under fairy spell.
Some accident turned the conversation upon Hogg, the poet, in which Laidlaw, who was seated beside us, took a part. Hogg had once been a shepherd in the service of his father, and Laidlaw gave many interesting anecdotes of him, of which I now retain no recollection. They used to tend the sheep together when Laidlaw was a boy, and Hogg would recite the first struggling conceptions of his muse24. At night when Laidlaw was quartered comfortably in bed, in the farmhouse158, poor Hogg would take to the shepherd's hut in the field on the hillside, and there lie awake for hours together, and look at the stars and make poetry, which he would repeat the next day to his companion.
Scott spoke in warm terms of Hogg, and repeated passages from his beautiful poem of "Kelmeny," to which he gave great and well-merited praise. He gave, also, some amusing anecdotes of Hogg and his publisher, Blackwood, who was at that time just rising into the bibliographical159 importance which he has since enjoyed.
Hogg, in one of his poems, I believe the "Pilgrims of the Sun," had dabbled160 a little in metaphysics, and like his heroes, had got into the clouds. Blackwood, who began to affect criticism, argued stoutly161 with him as to the necessity of omitting or elucidating163 some obscure passage. Hogg was immovable.
"But, man," said Blackwood, "I dinna ken25 what ye mean in this passage." "Hout tout162, man," replied Hogg, impatiently, "I dinna ken always what I mean mysel." There is many a metaphysical poet in the same predicament with honest Hogg.
Scott promised to invite the Shepherd to Abbotsford during my visit, and I anticipated much gratification in meeting with him, from the account I had received of his character and manners, and the great pleasure I had derived164 from his works. Circumstances, however, prevented Scott from performing his promise; and to my great regret I left Scotland without seeing one of its most original and national characters.
When the weather held up, we continued our walk until we came to a beautiful sheet of water, in the bosom165 of the mountain, called, if I recollect right, the lake of Cauldshiel. Scott prided himself much upon this little Mediterranean166 sea in his dominions167, and hoped I was not too much spoiled by our great lakes in America to relish it. He proposed to take me out to the centre of it, to a fine point of view, for which purpose we embarked168 in a small boat, which had been put on the lake by his neighbor, Lord Somerville. As I was about to step on board, I observed in large letters on one of the benches, "Search No. 2." I paused for a moment and repeated the inscription aloud, trying to recollect something I had heard or read to which it alluded169. "Pshaw," cried Scott, "it is only some of Lord Somerville's nonsense—get in!" In an instant scenes in the Antiquary connected with "Search No. 1," flashed upon my mind. "Ah! I remember now," said I, and with a laugh took my seat, but adverted170 no more to the circumstance.
We had a pleasant row about the lake, which commanded some pretty scenery. The most interesting circumstance connected with it, however, according to Scott, was, that it was haunted by a bogle in the shape of a water bull, which lived in the deep parts, and now and then came forth upon dry land and made a tremendous roaring, that shook the very hills. This story had been current in the vicinity from time immemorial;—there was a man living who declared he had seen the bull,—and he was believed by many of his simple neighbors. "I don't choose to contradict the tale," said Scott, "for I am willing to have my lake stocked with any fish, flesh, or fowl171 that my neighbors think proper to put into it; and these old wives' fables172 are a kind of property in Scotland that belongs to the estates and goes with the soil. Our streams and lochs are like the rivers and pools in Germany, that have all their Wasser Nixe, or water witches, and I have a fancy for these kind of amphibious bogles and hobgoblins."
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