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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