As soon as we entered Hawick we were surrounded by an immense crowd....

A few minutes on this side of Hawick we met the two boys and Robert riding to meet us, looking lovely.

Her uncle John Elliot was successful in his candidature of Hawick.

"Hawick," she writes, "has done her duty well indeedin all ways; for the sheriff's terrible riots have been nothing at all.

From Hawick we had the most lovely moonlight, making the river like silver and the fields like snow.

I told him the library would be more comfortable, and we were established there (he very kindly reading the "Lay" aloud), when two Hawick Bailiffs arrived to present him with the freedom of the town....

"In Hawick twinkled many a light, Behind him soon they set in night.

I was glad to reach Hawick, a good, solid town but a little way inside of the Scottish border, where I spent the sabbath and the following Monday.

The great business of Hawick is the manufacture of a woollen fabric called Tweeds.

HAWICK (19), a prosperous and ancient town of Roxburghshire, at the confluence of the Teviot and Slitrig, 52 m. SE. of Edinburgh; is a flourishing centre of the tweed, yarn, and hosiery trade, and has besides dye-works, tanneries, &c. HAWK-EYE STATE, Iowa, U.S., so called from the name of an Indian chief once a terror in those parts.

PATERSON, ROBERT, the original of Scott's "Old Mortality," a stone-mason, born near Hawick; devoted 40 years of his life to restoring and erecting monumental stones to the memory of the Scotch Covenanters (1712-1801).

" A similar feeling is manifest in the following conversation, which, I am assured, is authentic:At Hawick the people used to wear wooden clogs, which make a clanking noise on the pavement.