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[Illustration: "THIS VERY NIGHT WE WILL RIDE OVER INTO ETTRICK, AND LIFT
A WHEEN O' THEM." (P. 106)]

TALES FROM
SCOTTISH BALLADS

BY

ELIZABETH W. GRIERSON

AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES"
"THE BOOK OF EDINBURGH" ETC.

WITH FOUR FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR FROM DRAWINGS BY
ALLAN STEWART

A. & C. BLACK, LTD.

4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1

_Printed in Great Britain_

_First Edition ("Children's Tales from Scottish Ballads")
published in 1906._

_New Edition published in 1916._

_Reprinted and included in Boys' and Girls' Library in 1925._

_Reprinted in 1930._

To

MY TWO FIRESIDE CRITICS

A. S. G. AND J. B. G.

CONTENTS

THE LOCHMABEN HARPER 1

THE LAIRD O' LOGIE 11

KINMONT WILLIE 32

THE GUDE WALLACE 63

THE WARLOCK O' OAKWOOD 81

MUCKLE-MOU'ED MEG 101

DICK O' THE COW 125

THE HEIR OF LINNE 143

BLACK AGNACE OF DUNBAR 161

THOMAS THE RHYMER 195

LORD SOULIS 214

THE BROWNIE OF BLEDNOCK 234

SIR PATRICK SPENS 244

YOUNG BEKIE 259

THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER 274

HYNDE HORN 291

THE GAY GOS-HAWK 310

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

FROM DRAWINGS BY ALLAN STEWART

"This very night we will ride over into
Ettrick, and lift a wheen o' them" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"My father eyed them keenly, his face
growing grave as he did so" 36

"''Tis a God's-penny,' cried the guests in amazement" 158

"When she approached he pulled off his
bonnet and louted low" 198

THE LOCHMABEN HARPER

"Oh, heard ye of a silly harper,
Wha lang lived in Lochmaben town,
How he did gang to fair England,
To steal King Henry's wanton brown?"

Once upon a time, there was an old man in Lochmaben, who made his
livelihood by going round the country playing on his harp. He was very
old, and very blind, and there was such a simple air about him, th