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Abbotsford
Sir
Walter Scott kept open house at Abbotsford
House in the fine old feudal fashion and was seldom without
visitors. His own friends and many strangers from a distance,
with or without introductions, sought him there, and found
a hearty hospitable country laird, entirely occupied to all
outward appearance with local and domestic business and sport,
building and planting, adding wing to wing, acre to acre,
plantation to plantation, with just leisure enough for the
free-hearted entertainment of his guests and the cultivation
of friendly relations with his humble neighbors.
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