This is a woman's letter and it must have a postscript. It is only two lines of John Stuart Blackie's, and it should have been at the beginning, but it will touch your heart at the end as well as at the beginning. "Oh, for a breath of the great North Sea, Girdling the mountains!" S. V. G. * * * * * Transcriber Notes Fixed probable typos. Hyphenation standardized. Archaic and variable spelling is preserved. Author's punctuation style is preserved, except quote marks, which have been standardized. Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's An Orkney Maid, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr