Edinburgh in the days of the body-snatchers, supernatural happenings in the glens and hills, the Scottish soldier in peace and war, and stirring events from Scotland's tumultuous past. This admirable collection of thirteen Scottish tales from Blackwood's Magazine includes work by such famous Scots men of letters as James Hogg, W. E. Aytoun, Neil Munro, Andrew Lang, John Buchan and Ian Hay.

CONTENTS

1 Burke and Hare 1

Professor John Wilson

2 The Awfu' Night 11

D. M. Moir

3 The Brownie of the Black Haggs 26

James Hogg

4 How we got up the Glenmutchkin Railway 46

W. E. Aytoun

5 A Night with the Volunteers of Strathkinahan 80

Laurence Lockhart

6 The Sgeul of Black Murdo 124

Neil Munro

7 A Creelful of Celtic Stories 142

Andrew Lang

8 Fountainblue 158

John Buchan

9 ... And Some Fell by the Wayside 197
Ian Hay

10 'The Sweet Singers' 209

W. Croft Dickinson

11 By the Lochside 218

H. Mortimer Batten

12 The White Garron 244
 

Eona Macnicol
 

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