Introductory material
Reading edition
from oil paintings by CHARLES MARTIN HARDIE, R.S.A.
One of the Duke’s Huntsmen Frontispiece
Mansie’s Shop Door Title-page
Mansie’s Wedding: The Dance gaed through the Lighted Hall Page 8
Mansie and Nancy 24
The Minister’s Lassie Jess: A Blue-eyed Lassie of a Serving Maid 40
Mansie’s Father 56
Rev. Mr Wiggie 72
The First Day I got my Regimentals on 104
Thomas Burlings: Elder 136
Mungo Glen 184
James Batter, Mostly Blinded in both his Eyes, looking for our Name in the Book of Martyrs 216
Country Lassies bleaching their Snow-white Linen 248
The Waiting Girl, Jeanie Amos 264
Peter Farrel 280
An Old Dalkeith Body 312
The Lazy Corner, Dalkeith 344
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The sun rises bright in France, And fair sets he; But he has tint the blithe blink he had In my ain countree.
Allan Cunningham.