ns stand on a smooth and beautiful
lawn, between the town and the shore of the loch. The people who lived
in the palace had delightful views from their windows, both of the water
of the loch itself and of the opposite shores.

At this ruin people can go up by the old staircases to various rooms in
the upper stories, and even to the top of the walls. The floors,
wherever the floors remain, are covered with grass and weeds.

There was a very curious story about the castle. It was taken at one
time by means of a load of hay. The enemy engaged a farmer who lived
near, and who was accustomed to supply the people of the castle with
hay, to join them in their plot. So they put some armed men on his cart,
and covered them all over with hay. They also concealed some more armed
men near the gateway. The gateway had what is called a portcullis; that
is, a heavy iron gate suspended by chains, so as to rise and fall. Of
course, when the portcullis was down, nobody could get in or out.

The people of the castle hoisted the portcullis, to let the load of hay
come in, and the farmer, as soon as he had got the wagon in the middle
of the gateway, stopped it there, and cut the traces, so that it could
not be drawn any farther. At the same instant the men who were hid under
the hay jumped out, killed the guard at the gates, called out to the
other men who were in ambush, and they all poured into the castle
together, crowding by at the sides of the wagon. The wagon, being
directly in the way, prevented the portcullis from being shut down. Thus
the castle was taken.

Mr. George and Rollo also went to visit Melrose Abbey, which is a very
beautiful ruin in the south part of Scotland. While they were there they
visited Abbotsford, too, which is the house that Walter Scott lived in.
Walter Scott amused himself, during his lifetime, in collecting a great
many objects of interest connected with Scottish history, and putting
them up in his house; and now the place is a perfect museum of Scottish
antiquities and curiosities.

Melrose and Abbotsford are in the southern part of Scotland, not very
far from the English frontier. After visiting them, Mr. George and Rollo
proceeded by the railway to Berwick, which stands on the boundary line;
and there they bade Scotland farewell.

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