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. XV.

LONDON:

WALTER SCOTT, 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE

AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.

1885.

The Recollections of a Village Patriarch, (John Mackay Wilson)

The Old Chronicler's Tales, (Alexander Leighton)
The Death of James I

The Curate of Govan, (Alexander Campbell)

Gleanings of the Covenant, (Professor Thomas Gillespie)
I.—The Grandmother's Narrative
II.—The Covenanters' March
III.—Peden's Farewell Sermon
IV.—The Persecution of the M'Michaels

The Story of Tom Bertram, (Oliver Richardson)

The Cottar's Daughter, (Anon.)

The Surgeon's Tales, (Alexander Leighton)
The Case of Evidence

The Warning, (Alexander Bethune)

Grizel Cochrane. A Tale of Tweedmouth Muir, (John Mackay Wilson)

Squire Ben, (John Mackay Wilson)

The Battle of Dryffe Sands, (Anon.)

The Clerical Murderer, (Alexander Leighton)

WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND.

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A VILLAGE PATRIARCH.

There is no feeling more strongly or more generally implanted in thehuman breast, than man's love for the place of his nativity. Theshivering Icelander sees a beauty, that renders them pleasant, in hismountains of perpetual snow; and the sunburned Moor discovers aloveliness in his sultry and sandy desert. The scenes of our nativitybecome implanted on our hearts like the memory of undying dreams; andwith them the word home is for ever associated, and

"Through pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."

We cannot forget the place where our eyes first looked upon the glorio

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