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    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 CUMBERLAND.


    PERTH:
    WOOD AND SON, 52 HIGH STREET.

    1906.




PREFATORY NOTE.


After the death of my husband, ROBERT SCOTT FITTIS, several of his
friends suggested to me that some of his earlier writings should be
re-published in book form as a MEMORIAL OF THE AUTHOR, especially as
it is now quite impossible to procure them otherwise. For these
reasons I have chosen "The Mosstrooper," which, although now
re-published here as he revised it in a subsequent edition, was
originally written by my late husband when he was only between sixteen
and seventeen years of age.

I take this public opportunity of thanking Mr. A. H. MILLAR for his
great kindness in writing the very full and accurate biographical
notice which is prefixed to this Memorial Volume.

    KATHARINE FITTIS.

    89 HIGH STREET,
    PERTH, December, 1906.

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