Telegram-herald., 1890-09-14
AFOOT IN SCOTLAND
YethoIms A Scottish Town Among
the Aools Chsvi0t hills
ABtAUIIFUL nD CHARMING REALITY
"A s~sst. Ola. Oat-of-ths-ws sPSs. Hid
Aaks a Msads~ LaEks N~st Ia oas
ef slotlAsd's shihiax borasr
NRlssn Ola Gypsy Frtsaas

1 arrays lofc - come t3 1ethOln. IL
= sweet. ed, Out-0f-ths-Wsy spot,
bid IKE a meadow -lark's nest la one Of
scoJlAnds shining border wales. Be
s.des, my old friends, the Glpsles. Who
have made the place their haunt and
home for nearly 400 years, greet me 20
joyously that their radiant faces, vice
Ike hand -grasps and loudly beloved,
eFer-qaaint words of greeting. thrill
me as one knows ia a giadsOme home
coming.
The valley Of Yetholm itself : en-
chanting enough without It's tinge and
flavor OF true Odpsyism. IL lies withia
etnnon-range of the English border, Ia
the southeastern shire Of Scotland,
Roxourhshire, and in. e eastern district
Which comprises the parishes of Linton,
H0wnam, YethOlm and More
battle. ON al sides rise the noble
Chawot Hills. more beautiful aud
charming in reality than anywhere
painted "a ali border mnstrclsy. The
vale . 50 shut IN from the outside
world that it IS only accessible by two
roads, 40 hidden. as one wanders IN
hamlet ana valley, that no egress from
the romantic spot can anywhere be
seen. But winding through the Cheviot
peaks. one thOroughfare leads to Kelso,
and another to Jedburgh, both places
fne examples oil old border towns,
through most enhancing scenes. The
one trailing along TO Kelso, gives noble
views Of the region at the junction of
the TeviOt and Tweed, and
OF the runs of RoJburgh Abbey, TO my
mind the sweetest spot and the finest
Scottish medieval rum 10 be found.
just beyond where il leaves Yet
holm through the circuitous opening
n the hills, Is the famous Cherry-trees-
Manse. reference TO which ever brings
a broad -Inile 10 every scotch face; for
twas here that the famous David VIII
hanson, a prosecuted Presbyterian
clergyman. who afterwards ministered
at ~. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, was put
by the lady Of the manse into bed with
her own daughter, "body and boots"
10 escape the pursuing dragons, by
winch means the reverend Cherrytree
Dave, As ne was ever afterwards known,
was saved from his pursuers, but 1t the
expense of the young lady; who, how
e,r.- Z. .Ft.r.-,,.-f, b.>o,r.,e. a.. t;~.. 90 ,ho
reverend gentleman's seven wives"
OvershadOwing Yetholm itself are
ak noble hills Of the Cheviot, Sher-
Trough. Staerough, GOldsnout, Green
Hamilton, Harelaw and great Nenchen,
hiding from the hamlet the blllowy,
vcrdure-Clad reaches of English North
umbrian wales. Between the circlng
base Of NenCnen and the sunny haughs
of the five other haif-mOuntains, flows
the BOwmOut Water. an endless water
song tuned IN hollow reeds and over
myriad banks OF bleaching pebbles;
nules-.Ong shadows of wondrOus tint
and tone. At the cresceut-lIke base OF
tbe five bills Is an ancient Scottish
hamlet. a wide. clean street; huge
square houses, with peaked, thatched
roofs; two old inns, Co which nobody
ever comes save hob-soled huds 80 the
rare intervals Of market DAYS and holt
days, tiny windows and huge doors;
mons.rous knobs aud knockers; red
tiles ant brown thstchIng; WITH mere
and there the forms and faces OF old,
old women. with tclt backs and trem-
biug-frlled ''mutch' caps, are what
one secs in Z.
This IS old NethOlm. Winding out Of
its russell side underneath a shadOwy
vaultugof trees, pleasant way leads
across B0vmOut Water vale. where
often 10 the very water itself, occur the
fiercest struggles of the famous Bow
Woutslde games of Fasten's Fen, or
Shr0ve Tuesday. This sunny road. at
last threading around the bold side Of
NenCnen. passes gray old mill. then
- lost in a mass 0f foliage ~ an ancient
manse iu which lives my friend, good
minister Davidson, for more than a
quarter of a century the pastor or the
hcatncn kommany tribe at his very
door and then to tho Tght and left
and before you, fruging a ragged tri-
angie enclosing Nethl0lm Green. are
a.i that are left Of the cottsge-bomes OF
wbat what was once the largest Gypsy
settlement In any EnEisa-spcaSing
land This Il Eirk-Yetholm
Gvrs,es stole into scotland fron, Irp-
ns,d ahout the wear 1870 - consun-
r,ateiv .h~.vd 1xero they in CARVING
r,t tIs.r a.sfrr,at,on of nslvrsu,arc nm
fsr tha lsadsrss-n ~ Anthan,us
Csv.-o. earl If ttla Frvnt ard of
b.frr enfnr commands of the none t.
trander seven wears without sIeen.rr-
fr A bed that tbev srtnauv sec1red
tne rountensuce. n NOT che favor ~
rarnrs EV THrv- rr~rivrH ~, ,,,.,1.sf,