"Heugh! heugh!"

"Heugh! heugh!"

That oldest Northumbrian poem, however, the "Beowulf," chants the praises of its hero's prowess in encounters of the kind; and the north-country still has its legends of the Sockburn Worm, the Lambton Worm, and the "Laidly" Worm of Spindleston Heugh, the two first having their venue in Durham, and the last in Northumberland.

But the fear of it in no wise diminished, and "Word went east, and word went west, And word is gone over the sea, That a laidly worm in Spindleston Heugh Would ruin the North Countree.

The "Spindlestone," a tall crag on which the young knight hung his bridle, when he went further on to seek the worm in the "heugh," is still to be seen, but the huge trough from which the worm was said to drink has been destroyed.

An'naple, nurse of Hobbie Elliot of the Heugh-foot, a young farmer.

Armstrong (Grace), the bride-elect of Hobbie Elliot of the heugh-foot, a young farmer.

DINGLE (Old Dick of the), friend of Hobbie Elliott of the Heugh-foot farm.

ELLIOTT, (Hobbie, i.e. Halbert), farmer at the Heugh-foot.

" The Rev. John Heugh of Stirling was one day admonishing one of his people of the sin of intemperance: "Man, John, you should never drink except when you're dry."

A young lad of this name, on being sent to Glasgow College, presented a letter from his minister to Rev. Dr. Heugh of Glasgow.