Category: Novels
It was on the 13th of February 1823, on a cold stormy day, the snow lying from one to ten feet deep on the hills, and nearly as hard as ice, when an extensive store-farmer in the outer limits of the county of Peebles went up to one of his led farms, to see how his old shepherd...
"Bring me my pike-staff, daughter Matilda,--the one with the head turned round like crummy's horn; I find it easiest for my hand. And do you hear, Matty?--Stop, I say; you are a...
10. CHAPTER IX.The following incidents are related as having occurred at a shepherd's house, not a hundred miles from St Mary's Loch; but, as the descendants of one of the families still resid...
2. CHAPTER II.One of those events that have made the deepest impression on the shepherds' minds for a century bygone, seems to have been the fate of Mr Adamson, who was tenant in Laverhope fo...
9. CHAPTER VIII.In the year 1807, when on a jaunt through the valleys of Nith and Annan, I learned the following story on the spot where the incidents occurred, and even went and visited all th...
1. CHAPTER I.It was on the 13th of February 1823, on a cold stormy day, the snow lying from one to ten feet deep on the hills, and nearly as hard as ice, when an extensive store-farmer in th...
12. CHAPTER XI.The smith was now in the most ticklish quandary; eager to learn particulars, that he might spread the astounding news through the whole village, and the rest of the parish to bo...
6. CHAPTER VI.I have heard an amusing story of a young man whose name happened to be the same as that of the hero of the preceding chapter--George Dobson. He was a shoemaker, a very honest ma...
11. CHAPTER X.When the Sprots were Lairds of Wheelhope, which is now a long time ago, there was one of the ladies who was very badly spoken of in the country. People did not just openly asser...
7. CHAPTER VII.There is an old story which I have often heard related, about a great Laird of Cassway, in an outer corner of Dumfries-shire, of the name of Beattie, and his two sons. The incid...
4. CHAPTER IV.The various ways in which misfortunes affect different minds, are often so opposite, that in contemplating them, we may well be led to suppose the human soul animated and direct...
8. part I am so sick at heart, that my nerves are all unstrung. Pray, do"I cannot, for my life, give credit to this, brother, or that it was any other being but my father himself who rebuked me. Pray allow me to tarry another day at least, before I...
5. CHAPTER V.There is no phenomenon in nature less understood, and about which greater nonsense is written, than dreaming. It is a strange thing. For my part, I do not understand it, nor hav...