Memorials of James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII. 1821?1825. Not content with the good the gods had provided for him, the Shepherd unfortunately took a lease of a farm adjoining the little nook given him by the Duke of Buccleuch. Mount Benger was the name of the farm, and many of his pieces and compositions were written while living there, so that the name of the place became familiar to the readers ofBlackwood and to the public. To it he removed a year or two subsequent to his marriage. The misfortunes which had hitherto attended Hogg now descended also on his father-in-law, who had up to this time been a prosperous man. Mr. Phillips, in this not unlike his son-in-law, was singularly kind hearted and " aefauld;" and, owing a good deal to these qualities, he incurred severe losses, so severe as to result in his becoming all but bankrupt. The