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few of the stories that still remain--flotsam and jetsam saved from the cruel rush of an overwhelming tide.
One or two of the tales in this volume are perhaps not quite so familiar as is the average Border story, and some may contain less of violence and of bloodshed than is common. Yet it must be owned that it is no easy task to divorce the Border from its wedded mate, violence.
JOHN LANG. JEAN LANG.
CONTENTS
THE WHITE LADY OF BLENKINSOPP 1
DICKY OF KINGSWOOD 17
STORM AND TEMPEST 28
GRISELL HOME, A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HEROINE 45
KINMONT WILLIE 66
IN THE DAYS OF THE '15 82
SEWINGSHIELDS CASTLE, AND THE SUNKEN TREASURE OF BROOMLEE LOUGH 108
THE KIDNAPPING OF LORD DURIE 115
THE WRAITH OF PATRICK KERR 132
THE LAIDLEY WORM OF SPINDLESTON-HEUGH 136
A BORDERER IN AMERICA 147
BORDER SNOWSTORMS 164
THE MURDER OF COLONEL STEWART OF HARTRIGGE 187
AULD RINGAN OLIVER 195
A LEGEND OF NORHAM 208
THE GHOST OF PERCIVAL REED 223
DANDY JIM THE PACKMAN 231
THE VAMPIRES OF BERWICK AND MELROSE 237
A BORDER MIDDY 244
SHEEP-STEALING IN TWEEDDALE 256
A PRIVATE OF THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS 271
HIGHWAYMEN IN THE BORDER 282
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE 295
ILLICIT DISTILLING AND SMUGGLING 304
SALMON AND SALMON-POACHERS IN THE BORDER 322
THE GHOST THAT DANCED AT JETHART 342
A MAN HUNT IN 1813 346
LADY STAIR'S DAUGHTER 351
STORIES OF THE BORDER MARCHES
THE WHITE LADY OF BLENKINSOPP
Among the old castles and peel towers of the Border, there are few to which some tale or other of the supernatural does not attach itself. It may be a legend of buried treasure, watched over by a weeping figure, that wrings its hands; folk may tell of the apparition of an ancient dame, whose corpse-like features yet show traces of passions unspent; of solemn, hooded monk, with face