The greater number of the Tales containedin these volumes appeared originally in Blackwood'sEdinburgh Magazine. They havebeen revised with care; and to complete theCollection, several Tales hitherto unpublishedhave been added.
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| Chap.I. | Rob Dodds, | 1 |
| II. | Mr Adamson of Laverhope, | 33 |
| III. | The Prodigal Son, | 69 |
| IV. | The School of Misfortune, | 112 |
| V. | George Dobson's Expedition to Hell, | 131 |
| VI. | The Souters of Selkirk, | 148 |
| VII. | The Laird of Cassway, | 176 |
| VIII. | Tibby Hyslop's Dream, | 212 |
| IX. | Mary Burnet, | 247 |
| X. | The Brownie of the Black Haggs, | 285 |
| XI. | The Laird of Wineholm, | 311 |
It was on the 13th of February 1823, on a coldstormy day, the snow lying from one to ten feet deepon the hills, and nearly as hard as ice, when an extensivestore-farmer in the outer limits of the county ofPeebles went up to one of his led farms, to see howhis old shepherd was coming on with his flocks. Apartial thaw had blackened some spots here and thereon the brows of the mountains, and over these thehalf-starving flocks were scattered, picking up a scantysustenance, while all the hollow parts, and whole sidesof mountains that lay sheltered from the winds on thepreceding week, when the great drifts blew, wereheape