Children's Fiction
On a brilliant summer morning in the last quarter of the seventeenth century a small troop of horsemen crossed the ford of the river Cairn, in Dumfriesshire, not far from the spot where stands the little church of Irongray, and, gaining the road on the western bank of the stre...
Many months passed away, during which Andrew Black, clean-shaved, brushed-up, and converted into a very respectable, ordinary-looking artisan, carried on the trade of a turner,...
11. Chapter 11In February 1685 Charles the Second died--not without some suspicion of foul play. His brother, the Duke of York, an avowed Papist, ascended the throne as James the Second. This...
10. Chapter 10After his escape, Quentin Dick, hearing of the recapture of his comrades, and knowing that he could not in any way help them, resolved to go back to Dumfries to make inquiries a...
7. Chapter 7One day, about a week after the burning of Black's farm, a select dinner-party of red-hot rebels--as Government would have styled them; persecuted people as they called themselv...
9. Chapter 9The enclosure at the south-western corner of Greyfriars Churchyard, which had been chosen as the prison of the men who were spared after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, was a sma...
6. Chapter 6Mrs. Black was a woman of sedate character and considerable knowledge for her station in life--especially in regard to Scripture. Like her son she was naturally grave and though...
8. Chapter 8Persecuted inhumanly and beyond endurance, with every natural avenue of redress closed, and flushed with recent victory, the Covenanters resolved not only to hold together for d...
5. Chapter 5Immediately on entering the cave in which this party of Covenanters had found a temporary shelter, Will Wallace learned the reason of the large supply of provisions which he and...
4. Chapter 4Being ignorant, as we have said, of the cruel murder of old Mitchell, Ramblin' Peter's report had not seriously alarmed Black. He concluded that the worst the troopers would do...
3. Chapter 3The face of nature did not seem propitious to the great gathering on Skeoch Hill. Inky clouds rolled athwart the leaden sky, threatening a deluge of rain, and fitful gusts of wi...
2. Chapter 2The night was dark and threatening when Andrew Black and his shepherd left their cottage, and quickly but quietly made for the neighbouring hill. The weather was well suited for...
1. Chapter 1On a brilliant summer morning in the last quarter of the seventeenth century a small troop of horsemen crossed the ford of the river Cairn, in Dumfriesshire, not far from the sp...