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Chronicles of the Canongate;: The Highland widow. The two drovers. (v. 1)
Chronicles of the Canongate The Highland widow The two drovers - v. 1 Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whom the law of the neighbouring country terms John Doe and Richard Roe. Dire was the strife betwixt my quondam doer and myself; during which my motions were ... more »circumscribed, like those of some conjured demon, within a circle, which, " beginning at the northern gate of the King's Park, thence running north ways, is bounded on the left by the King's garden-wall, and the gutter, or kennel, in a line wherewith it crosses the High Street to the Water-gate, and passing through the sewer, is bounded by the walls of the Tennis-court and Physic-garden, andc. Then it follows the wall of the church-yard, joins the north-west wall of St Ann's Yards, and going east to the clack mill-house, turns southward to the turnstile in the King's park-wall, and includes the whole King's Park within the Sanctuary." These limits, which I abridge from the accurate Maitland, once marked the Girth, or Asylum, belonging to the Abbey of Holyrood, and which, being still an appendage to the royal palace, has retained the privilege of an asylum for civil debt. One would think the space sufficiently extensive for a man to stretch his limbs in, as, besides a chapter{Section 4reasonable proportion of level ground, (considering that the -scene lies in Scotland,) it includes within its precincts the mountain of Arthur's Seat, and the rocks and pasture land called Salisbury Crags. But yet it is inexpressible how, after a certain time had elapsed, I used to long for the Sunday, which permitted me to extend my walk without limitation. During the other six days of the week I felt a sickness of heart, whkh, but for the speedy approach of the hebdomadal day of liberty, I could hardly have en- dared. I experienced the impatience of a mastiff, who tugs in vain to extend the limits which his chain permits. Day after ...« less