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EBOOK WILSON'S TALES, SCOTLAND ***
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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. XXII.
1884.
CONTENTS.
UPS AND DOWNS; OR, DAVID STUART'S ACCOUNT OF HIS PILGRIMAGE, (_John
Mackay Wilson_),
THE BURGHER'S TALES. THE ANCIENT BUREAU. (_Alexander Leighton_),
LADY RAE, (_Alexander Campbell_),
THE DIAMOND EYES, (_Alexander Leighton_),
DAVID LORIMER, (_Anon_.)
THE CONVICT, (_Anon_.)
THE AMATEUR ROBBERY, (_Alexander Leighton_),
THE PROCRASTINATOR, (_John Mackay Wilson_),
THE TEN OF DIAMONDS, (_Alexander Leighton_),
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND.
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UPS AND DOWNS; OR, DAVID STUART'S ACCOUNT OF HIS PILGRIMAGE.
Old David Stuart was the picture of health--a personification of
contentment. When I knew him, his years must have considerably exceeded
threescore; but his good-natured face was as ruddy as health could make
it; his hair, though mingled with grey, was as thick and strong as if he
had been but twenty; his person was still muscular and active; and,
moreover, he yet retained, in all their freshness, the feelings of his
youth, and no small portion of the simplicity of his childhood.
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