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    [Illustration: ROBERT SCOTT FITTIS]


    MEMORIAL VOLUME.




    THE MOSSTROOPER.

    A LEGEND OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER.

    BY ROBERT SCOTT FITTIS.


    WITH INTRODUCTORY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY
    A. H. MILLAR, F.S.A. (SCOT.).


    _A stark, mosstrooping Scott was he,
    As e'er couch'd Border lance by knee._
            --LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.


    _They were all stark mosstroopers and arrant thieves;
    both to England and Scotland outlawed; yet sometimes
    connived at._
            --HISTORY OF CUM