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Title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2
Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative

Author: Alexander Leighton

Release Date: December 19, 2009 [EBook #30711]

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. II.

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

CONTENTS.

A WIFE OR THE WUDDY, (_John Mackay Wilson_), 1
LORD DURIE AND CHRISTIE'S WILL, (_Alexander Leighton_), 33
RECOLLECTIONS OF BURNS, (_Hugh Miller_), 65
THE PROFESSOR'S TALES (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_)--
THE CONVIVIALISTS, 122
PHILIPS GREY, 144
DONALD GORM, (_Alexander Campbell_), 155
THE SURGEON'S TALES, (_Alexander Leighton_)--
THE CURED INGRATE, 188
THE ADOPTED SON, (_John Mackay Wilson_), 220
THE FORTUNES OF WILLIAM WIGHTON, (_John Howell_), 247
MY BLACK COAT; OR, THE BREAKING
OF THE BRIDE'S CHINA, (_John Mackay Wilson_), 276

WILSON'S
TALES OF THE BORDERS
AND OF SCOTLAND.

THE WIFE OR THE WUDDY.

"There was a criminal in a cart
Agoing to be hanged--
Reprieve to him was granted;
The crowd and cart did stand,
To see if he would marry a wife,
Or, otherwise, choose to die!
'Oh, why should I torment my life?'
The victim did reply;
'The bargain's bad in every part--
But a wife's the worst!--drive on the cart.'"

Honest Sir John Falstaff talketh of "minions of the moon;" and, truth
to tell, two or three hundred years ago, nowhere