[Footnote 31: This Mr. Campbell was the same whom the
poet's mother employed to teach her boys to sing, as
recorded in the Autobiographical Fragment--_ante_, vol.
i. p. 44. I believe he was also the "litigious
Highlander" of a story told in Irving's _Abbotsford and
Newstead_, p. 57.

(In the November of this year, Scott writes to Lady
Abercorn: "The only thing I have been doing of late is
to write two or three songs for a poor man called
Campbell.... He has made an immense collection of
Highland airs, and I have given him words for some of
them. One of them is the only good song I ever wrote--it
is a fine Highland Gathering tune called _Pibroch an
Donuil Dhu_, that is, the Pibroch of Donald the
Black."--_Familiar Letters_, vol. i. p. 374.)]

TO D. TERRY, ESQ., ALFRED PLACE, BLOOMSBURY, LONDON.

ABBOTSFORD, 18th April, 1816.

MY DEAR TERRY,--I give you joy of your promotion to the
dignity of an householder, and heartily wish you all the
success you so well deserve, to answer the approaching
enlargement of your domestic establishment. You will find a
house a very devouring monster, and that the purveying for
it requires a little exertion, and a great {p.096} deal of
self-denial and arrangement. But when there is domestic
peace and contentment, all that would otherwise be
disagreeable, as restraining our taste and occupying our
time, becomes easy. I trust Mrs. Terry will get her business
easily over, and that you will soon "dandle Dickie on your
knee."--I have been at the spring circuit, which made me
late in receiving your letter, and there I was introduced to
a man whom I never saw in my life before, namely, the
proprietor of all the Pepper and Mustard family,--in other
words, the genuine Dandie Dinmont. Dandie is himself modest,
and says, "he b'lives it's only the dougs that is in the
buik, and no himsel'." As the surveyor of taxes was going
his ominous rounds past Hyndlea, which is the abode of
Dandie, his whole pack rushed out upon the man of execution,
and Dandie followed them (conscious that their number
greatly exceeded his return), exclaiming, "The tae hauf o'