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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. XX.


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




CONTENTS.


    THE DOMINIE OF ST FILLAN'S, (_Alexander Leighton_)                   1

    SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF PETER PATERSON, (_John Mackay Wilson_)        34

    THE HEROINE: A LEGEND OF THE CANONGATE, (_Alexander Leighton_)      66

    THE BARLEY BANNOCK, (_Alexander Campbell_)                          93

    GLEANINGS OF THE COVENANT, (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_)--

          xx. JOHN GOVAN'S NARRATIVE                                   111

         xxi. "OLD BLUNTIE"                                            120

        xxii. THOMAS HARKNESS OF LOCKERBEN                             124

       xxiii. THE SHOES REVERSED                                       132

    THE LOST HEIR OF THE HOUSE OF ELPHINSTONE, (_Rev. G. Thomson_)     143

    TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS, (_John Mackay Wilson_)                        194

    THE MISER OF NEWABBEY, (_Alexander Leighton_)                      226

    THE SEA SKIRMISH, (_Anon._)                                        258




WILSON'S

TALES OF THE BORDERS,

AND OF SCOTLAND.




THE DOMINIE