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. VII.

LONDON:

WALTER SCOTT, 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE

AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.

1885.

CONTENTS.

Judith the Egyptian; or, the Fate of the Heir of Riccon, (John MackayWilson)

The Droich, (Alexander Leighton)

The Lykewake, (Hugh Miller)

The Penny Wedding, (Alexander Campbell)

The Amateur Lawyers, (Alexander Leighton)

The Professor's Tales, (Professor Thomas Gillespie)
Family Incidents
Home and the Gipsy Maid
The Return

The Poor Scholar, (John Mackay Wilson)

The Laird of Darnick Tower, (J. H. )

The Broken Heart. A Tale of the Rebellion, (John Mackay Wilson)

The Cateran of Lochloy, (James Maidment)

Serjeant's Tales, (John Howell)
John Square's Voyage to India

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

JUDITH THE EGYPTIAN; OR, THE FATE OF THE HEIR OF RICCON.

"The black-eyed Judith, fair and tall,
Attracted the heir of Riccon Hall.

For years and years was Judith known,
Queen of a wild world all her own;
By Wooler Haugh, by silver Till,
By Coldstream Bridge, and Flodden Hill:

Until, at length, one morn, when sleet
Hung frozen round the traveller's feet,
By a grey ruin on Tweedside,
The creature laid her down and died."—Border Ballad.

More than three hundred years have elapsed since the people calledGipsies first made their appearance in this country; and, from all thatI have been able to trace concerning them, it seems to have been aboutthe same period that a number of their tribes or families proceedednorthwards, and became dwellers and wanderers on the Borders. Theirchief places of resort, and where, during th

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