Memoir of the Chisholm

RESIDES AT ERCHLESS CASTLE. 61
would go on to Erchles, and get leave to eat
the cold meat we had brought, in one of the
empty rooms, as we knew the young Chief
was not there. I was astonished at the
beauty of the place, and especially at the
neatness and order which reigned through-
out, so different to what one sees in general
in the Highland Castles. Chisholm's valet
received us with a politeness his master could
not have exceeded, and made us welcome.
He spread a table, and offered us wine, and
seemed quite hurt when he found we had
brought everything with us. He took Mrs.
"'s horses to the stable, and in short did
the honours completely, as did the nice re-
spectable notable -looking housemaid and the
gardener. How very nice the castle is !
Mrs. was enchanted with the neatness
and smiling appearance of everything, and
I assure you we were carried all through the
house. It was hardly fair, you will say, for a
party of ladies to ransack a bachelor's quar-
ters in this manner, and overhaul his books
Peter Anderson, brothers of the gentleman to whom the
writer is indebted for the information given in the note at
p. 56.