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Title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I
Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative

Author: Various

Editor: Alexander Leighton

Release Date: June 17, 2010 [EBook #32862]

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

LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE,
AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
1887.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE VACANT CHAIR (_John Mackay Wilson_) 1

THE FAA'S REVENGE (_John Mackay Wilson_) 18

KATE KENNEDY (_Alexander Leighton_) 50

RECOLLECTIONS OF FERGUSON (_Hugh Miller_) 83

THE DISASTERS
OF JOHNNY ARMSTRONG (_Alexander Campbell_) 128

THE PROFESSOR'S TALES--(_Professor Thomas Gillespie_):--

THE MOUNTAIN STORM 160

THE FAIR MAID OF CELLARDYKES 172

PRESCRIPTION;
OR, THE 29TH OF SEPTEMBER (_Alex. Leighton_) 193

THE COUNTESS OF WISTONBURY (_Alexander Campbell_) 225

MIDSIDE MAGGIE; OR, THE BANNOCK O' TOLLISHILL--
(_John Mackay Wilson_) 257

PREFACE.

This series of Tales, now so well known in this country and also in
America, was begun by JOHN MACKAY WILSON, originally a printer, and who
subsequently betook himself to literature. In the beginning of the
undertaking he was in