happy a' the
same; and if he has the luck to get a kirk in our country, I sall gang and hear
him just the very same, to show that I bear nae malice.« And as she imagined the
scene, the tear stole over her eye.
    In these melancholy reveries, Jeanie had full time to indulge herself; for
her travelling companions, servants in a distinguished and fashionable family,
had, of course, many topics of conversation, in which it was absolutely
impossible she could have either pleasure or portion. She had, therefore,
abundant leisure for reflection, and even for self-tormenting, during the
several days which, indulging the young horses the Duke was sending down to the
North with sufficient ease and short stages, they occupied in reaching the
neighbourhood of Carlisle.
    In approaching the vicinity of that ancient city, they discerned a
considerable crowd upon an eminence at a little distance from the high road, and
learned from some passengers who were gathering towards that busy scene from the
southward, that the cause of the concourse was, the laudable public desire »to
see a doomed Scotch witch and thief get half of her due upo' Haribeebroo'
yonder, for she was only to be hanged; she should hae been boorned aloive, an'
cheap on't.«
    »Dear Mr. Archibald,« said the dame of the dairy elect, »I never seed a
woman hanged in a' my life, and only four men, as made a goodly spectacle.«
    Mr. Archibald, however, was a Scotchman, and promised himself no exuberant
pleasure in seeing his countrywoman undergo »the terrible behests of law.«
Moreover, he was a man of sense and delicacy in his way, and the late
circumstances of Jeanie's family, with the cause of her expedition to London,
were not unknown to him; so that he answered drily, it was impossible to stop,
as he must be early at Carlisle on some business of the Duke's, and he
accordingly bid the postilions get on.
    The road at that time passed at about a quarter of a mile's distance from
the eminence, called Haribee or Harabee-brow, which, though it is very moderate
in size and height, is nevertheless seen from a great distance around, owing to
the flatness of the country through which the Eden flows. Here many an outlaw,
and border-rider of both kingdoms, had wavered in the wind during the wars, and
scarce less hostile truces, between the two countries. Upon Harabee, in latter
days, other executions