He added that it was a
wonder how the poet could be mistaken there, who once herded
the very ground where the grave is, and saw both hills from his
own window. Mr. L--w testified great surprise at such a singular
blunder, as also how the body came not to be buried at the
meeting of three or four lairds' lands, which had always been
customary in the south of Scotland. Our guide said he had always
heard it reported that the Eltrive men, with Mr. David Anderson
at their head, had risen before day on the Monday morning, it
having been on the Sabbath day that the man put down himself;
and that they set out with the intention of burying him on
Cowan's-Croft, where the three marches met at a point. But, it
having been an invariable rule to bury such lost sinners before the
rising of the sun, these five men were overtaken by day-light, as
they passed the house of Berry-Knowe; and, by the time they
reached the top of the Faw-Law, the sun was beginning to skair
the east. On this they laid down the body, and digged a deep
grave with all expedition; but, when they had done, it was too
short, and, the body being stiff, it would not go down; on which
Mr.
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