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The Long Ride Home

But what came to mind was a story told me by Rob Blair, about an ancestor trying to get his pregnant wife home from Kelso to the 7IL in a buckboard, in a snowstorm as her baby was arriving. Baby was born, healthy if a bit uncomfortable, in a cave under two large boulders, a spot known to the family ever after as "Mary's Bedroom".