lyke-wake' of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse." These notions are not peculiar to the gipsies; but having been once generally entertained among the Scottish common people, are now only found among those who are the most rude in their habits, and most devoid of instruction. The popular idea, that the protracted struggle between life and death is painfully prolonged by keeping the door of the apartment shut, was received as certain by the superstitious eld of Scotland. But neither was it to be thrown wide open. To leave the door ajar, was the plan adopted by the old crones who understood the mysteries of death-beds and lykewakes. In that case, there was room for the imprisoned spirit to escape; and yet an obstacle, we have been assured, was offered to the entrance of any frightful form which might otherwise intrude itself. The threshold of a habitation was in some sort a sacred limit, and the subject of much superstition. A bride, even to this day, is always lifted over it, a rule derived apparently from the Romans. THE REDDING STRAIK.-P. 297, 1. 11. The redding straik, namely, a blow received by a peacemaker who interferes betwixt two combatants, to redd or separate them, is proverbially said to be the most dangerous blow a man can receive. A girl. KINCHEN MORT.-P. 303, 1. 6. MILLING IN THE DARKMANS.-P. 303, 1. 8. Murder by night. LAP AND PANNEL.-P. 303, 1. 18. Liquor and food. UPRIGHT MAN.-P. 303, 1. 11. The leader (and greatest rogue) of the gang. CLOYED A DUD.-P. 303, 1. 13. Stolen a rag. TRINE TO THE CHEAT.-P. 303, 1. 15. Get imprisoned and hanged. STRAMMEL.-P. 303, 1. 18. Straw. BING OUT AND TOUR.-P. 304, 1. 2. Go out and watch. FRUMMAGEM'D YOU.-P. 304, 1. 9. Throttled you. BOUGHT SO MANY BROOMS.-P. 305, l. 17. Got so many warrants out. SING OUT.-P. 305, 1. 6, (foot.) To sing out or whistle in the cage, is when a rogue, being apprehended, peaches against his comrades. ADDITION to the sentence, P. 352, 1. 6, ending with "a light to his neighbours," " and perhaps raise him to the eminence sometimes attained by a shrewd, worldly, bustling man of business, when, settled among a generation of country gentlemen, he becomes, in Burns's language," The tongue of the trump to them a'. * The tongue of the trump is the wire of the Jew's harp, that which gives sound to the whole instrument. NO FREE TO SWEAR.-P. 356, 1. 18. Some of the strict dissenters decline taking an oath before a civil magistrate. SKITS.-P. 357, 1. 10. Tricks. "TO GAN UP THE LAWN-MARKET."-P. 359, 1. 20. The procession of the criminals to the gallows of old took that direction, moving, as the schoolboy rhyme had it, Up the Lawn-market, Down the West Bow, Up the lang ladder, And down the little tow. SHAND.-P. 133, 1. 4. from bottom. Cant expression for base coin. NOVELS AND TALES. VOL. IV. GUY MANNERING. DRY-HANDED.-P. 5, 1. 3, (foot.) Unarmed. WHISTLED.-P. 6, l. 1. Given information to the party concerned. Handcuffs. Darbies.-P. 6, 1. 6. SWORE BY THE Salmon.-P. 34, 1. 9. The great and inviolable oath of the strolling tribes. THE MEMORIAL.-P. 62, l. 5, (foot.) The Scottish Memorial corresponds to the English brief. DR ROBERTSON's Colleague.—P. 72, 1. 20. This was the celebrated Dr Erskine, a distinguished clergyman, and a most excellent man. The father of Dr Erskine was an eminent lawyer, and his Institutes of the Law of Scotland are to this day the text-book of students of that science. THE HIRSEL.-P. 97, 1. 14. The Stock of Sheep. Liddesdale.-P. 97, 1. 17. The roads of Liddesdale, in Dandie Dinmont's days, could not be said to exist, and the district was only accessible through a succession of tremendous morasses. About thirty years ago, the author himself was the first person who ever drove a little open carriage into these wilds; the excellent roads by which they are now traversed being then in some progress. The people stared with no small wonder at a sight which many of them had never witnessed in their lives before. TAPPIT HEN.-P. 108, l. 19. The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret— And leugh to see a Tappit Hen. yore. I have seen one of these formidable stoups at Provost Haswell's at Jedburgh, in the days of It was a pewter measure, the claret being in ancient days served from the tap, and had the figure of a hen upon the lid. In later times, the name was given to a glass bottle of the same dimensions. These are rare apparitions among the degenerate topers of modern days. CONVIVIAL HABITS OF THE SCOTTISH BAR. P. 108. The account given by Mr Pleydell, of his sitting down in the midst of a revel to draw an appeal case, was taken from a story told me by an aged gentleman, of the elder |