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Title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland
Volume 11

Author: John Mackay Wilson
Thomas Gillespie
Alexander Campbell
Alexander Bethune
Oliver Richardson

Editor: Alexander Leighton

Release Date: March 24, 2010 [EBook #31761]

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. XI.

LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE,
AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
1884.

CONTENTS.

Page

THE DOMINIE'S CLASS (_John Mackay Wilson_) 1

THE CONTRAST OF WIVES (_Alexander Leighton_) 33

THE PROFESSOR'S TALES (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_)
THE SOCIAL MAN 65

THE TWO COMRADES (_Alexander Campbell_) 90

THE SURTOUT (_Alexander Campbell_) 106

THE SURGEON'S TALES
THE SUICIDE (_Alexander Leighton_) 121

THE GHOST OF HOWDYCRAIGS (_Alexander Bethune_) 153

THE GHOST OF GAIRYBURN (_Alexander Bethune_) 185

THE SMUGGLER (_John Mackay Wilson_) 217

THE SCHOOLFELLOWS (_Oliver Richardson_) 250

THE RED HALL; OR,
BERWICK IN 1296 (_John Mackay Wilson_) 281

WILSON'S

TALES OF THE BORDERS,

AND OF SCOTLAND.

THE DOMINIE'S CLASS.[A]

"Their ends as various as the roads they take