different in rank and education, found each a good deal to say. The Duke,
besides his other patriotic qualities, was a distinguished agriculturist, and
proud of his knowledge in that department. He entertained Jeanie with his
observations on the different breeds of cattle in Scotland, and their capacity
for the dairy, and received so much information from her practical experience in
return, that he promised her a couple of Devonshire cows in reward for the
lesson. In short, his mind was so transported back to his rural employments and
amusements, that he sighed when his carriage stopped opposite to the old
hackney-coach, which Archibald had kept in attendance at the place where they
had left it. While the coachman again bridled his lean cattle, which had been
indulged with a bite of musty hay, the Duke cautioned Jeanie not to be too
communicative to her landlady concerning what had passed. »There is,« he said,
»no use of speaking of matters till they are actually settled; and you may refer
the good lady to Archibald, if she presses you hard with questions. She is his
old acquaintance, and he knows how to manage with her.«
    He then took a cordial farewell of Jeanie, and told her to be ready in the
ensuing week to return to Scotland - saw her safely established in her
hackney-coach, and rolled off in his own carriage, humming a stanza of the
ballad which he is said to have composed: -
 
»At the sight of Dumbarton once again,
I'll cock up my bonnet and march amain,
With my claymore hanging down to my heel,
To whang at the bannocks of barley meal.«
 
Perhaps one ought to be actually a Scotsman to conceive how ardently, under all
distinctions of rank and situation, they feel their mutual connection with each
other as natives of the same country. There are, I believe, more associations
common to the inhabitants of a rude and wild, than of a well-cultivated and
fertile country; their ancestors have more seldom changed their place of
residence; their mutual recollection of remarkable objects is more accurate; the
high and the low are more interested in each other's welfare; the feelings of
kindred and relationship are more widely extended, and in a word, the bonds of
patriotic affection, always honourable even when a little too exclusively
strained, have more influence on men's feelings and actions.
    The rumbling hackney-coach, which tumbled over the (then) execrable London
pavement, at a rate very different from that which had conveyed the ducal
carriage to Richmond, at length deposited Jeanie