Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ture which he had constructedon the model of one at Rokeby, with a desk and allits api)urtenanccs on eitiier side, that an amanuensismight work opposite to him when he chose, witlismall tiers of drawers reaching all round to thefloor. The top displayed a goodly array of sessionpapers, and on the desk below were, besides theMS. at which he was working, [jroof-sheets and so iC-4 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. (Castle Street. forth, all neatly done up with red tape. . .liis own writing apparatus was a very handsomeold , richly
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ture which he had constructedon the model of one at Rokeby, with a desk and allits api)urtenanccs on eitiier side, that an amanuensismight work opposite to him when he chose, witlismall tiers of drawers reaching all round to thefloor. The top displayed a goodly array of sessionpapers, and on the desk below were, besides theMS. at which he was working, [jroof-sheets and so iC-4 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. (Castle Street. forth, all neatly done up with red tape. . .liis own writing apparatus was a very handsomeold , richly carved, lined with crimson velvet,and containing ink-botdes, taper-stand, &c., insilver. The room had no space for pictures, exceptone, an original portrait of Claverhouse, which the upper leaves before opening it. I think I havementioned all the furniture of the room, except asort of ladder, low, broad, and well carpeted, andstrongly guarded with oaken rails, by which hehelped himself to books from his higher the top step of this convenience, Hinse, a. jP?r^tf>W7gJ?g4?. ?1R WALIER . 3 HOLiE, STREIT. hung over the chimney-piece, with a Highlandtarget on either side, and broadswords and dirks(each having its own story) disposed star-fashionround them. A few green tin boxes, such assolicitors keep their deeds in, were piled over eachother on one side of the window, and on the top ofthese lay a foxs tail, mounted on an antique silverhandle, wherewith, as often as he had occasion totake down a book, he gently brushed the dust off venerable tom-cat, fat and sleek, and no longervery locomotive, usually lay, watching the pro-ceedings of his master and Maida with an air ofdignified equanimity. Scotts professional practice at the bar was neveranything to speak of; but in 1S12 his salary andfees as a Principal Clerk of Session were commutedinto a salary of £1,600 annually, an incomehe enjoyed for upwards of twenty-five years. His Castle Street. J CATH
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