Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-13
MIR. wAKEMAN'S JOURNEYINGs.
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 sies Entered ScoIiand-SOme of the
 Original ChIcfs.
 YETHoLM, Scotland, Aug. :. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 I always love to come to Yetholm. It is a sweet, old, out-of the-way spot, hid like n meadow-lark's nest in one of Scotland's shining border wales. Besides, my old friends, the gipsies, who have made the place their haunt and home for nearly four hundred years, greet me so joyously that their radiant faces, vise-like hand -grasps and loudly beloved, cver-quaint words of greeting, thrill me as one knows i'll glad some homecoming
 The valley of Yetholm itself is enchant ing enough without it's tinge and flavor of true gypsyism. It lies within cannon range of the English border, in the south eastern shire of Scotland, Roxburgshire, and in its eastern district, which comprises the parishes of Linton, Hownam, Yetholm and Morebattle. On all sides rise the mo- ble Cheviot hills, more beautiful and charming in reality than anywhere paint et III dll DoEutf itliDStrtISN- 1nt Ntlt IS so shut in from the outside world that it is only accessible by two roads, so hidden, as one wanders in hamlet and valley, that no egress from the romantic spot can any where be seen. But winding through the Cheviot peaks, one thoroughfare leads to Kelso and another to Jedburg, both places fine examples of old border towns, through most entrancing scenes. The one trailing along to Kelso gives noble views of the re- zion at the junction of the Teviot and Tweed, and of the ruins of Roxburgh Alb bey, to my mind the sweetest spot and the finest Scottish medieval ruin to be found. Just beyond where it leaves Yetholm through the circuitous opening in the hills is the famous Cherry trees-Manse, refer ence to which ever brings broad smile to every Scotch face; for it was here that the famous David Williamson, a prosecuted Presbyterian clergyman, who afterwards ministered at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, was put by the lady of the Manse into bed with her own daughter, ''body and boots, ' to escape the pursuing dragons, by which means the reverend Cherrytree Davie, Gs he was ever afterwards known, was ssved from his pursuers, but at the expense .i the young lady; who, however, afterwa=5s became the first of the reverend gentle mans seven wives.
 Overshadowing Yetholm itself are six noble hills of the Cheviot, Sherbrough, Stserough, Goldsnout, Green Hamiltcl, Harelaw and great Venchen, hiding from the hamlet the billowy, verdure-clad reaches of English NorthumbIian wales. Between the circling base of Venchen and the sunny haughs of the five other half mountains flows the Bowmont Water, an endless water-song tuned in hollow reeds and over my ciad banks of bleaching peb. bles; miles-1ong shadows of wondrous tint and tone. At the crescent-like base of the | five hills is an ancient Scottish hamlet A wide, clean street; huge square houses with peaked, matched roofs; two old inns to which nobody ever comes, gave hob soled minds at tine rare intervals of market days and holidays; tiny windows and huge doors; monstrous knobs and knockers; red tiles and brown matching; with here an6 | there the forms and faces of old, old wo men with bent backs and trembling -frillet ssmutch" caps; are what one sees in it.
 This is old Yetholm. Winding out O it's russet side underneath ashadowy vault ing of trees, pleasant way leads acros Bowmont Water vale, where, often in tn