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Title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III

Author: Various

Editor: Alexander Leighton

Release Date: March 10, 2010 [eBook #31593]

Language: English

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WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLAND.

Historical, Traditionary, & Imaginative.

With a Glossary.

Revised by

ALEXANDER LEIGHTON,

One of the Original Editors and Contributors.

VOL. III.

London:
Walter Scott, 14 Paternoster Square
And Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
1885.

CONTENTS.

WIDOW OF DUNSKAITH, (_Hugh Miller_), 1

THE WHITSOME TRAGEDY, (_John Mackay Wilson_), 20

THE SURGEON'S TALES, (_Alexander Leighton_)--
THE DIVER AND THE BELL, 53

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIE SMITH, (_Alexander Campbell_), 85

THE PROFESSOR'S TALES, (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_)--
PHEBE FORTUNE, 117

THE ROYAL BRIDAL, (_John Mackay Wilson_), 134

THE ROYAL RAID, (_Alexander Leighton_), 166

THE EXPERIMENTER, (_John Howell_), 198

THE YOUNG LAIRD, (_Alexander Bethune_), 230

THE RIVAL NIGHTCAPS, (_Alexander Campbell_), 263

WILSON'S

TALES OF THE BORDERS

AND OF SCOTLAND.

THE WIDOW OF DUNSKAITH.

"Oh, mony a shriek, that waefu' night,
Rose frae the stormy main;
An' mony a bootless vow was made,
An' mony a prayer vain;
An' mithers wept, an' widows mourned
For mony a weary day;
An' maidens, ance o' blithest mood,
Grew sad, and pined away."

The northern Sutor of Crom